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Green Rental Properties: By The Numbers

78 percent: Percentage of Colorado households receiving financial assistance with energy costs that live in rental accommodation, and 13 percent of their household income goes to meet their energy needs.
1.2 million: Estimated number of U.K. households that will still be in fuel poverty (that is, spending more than 10 percent of their income on energy costs) in 2010. The vast majority of these will be in rental accommodation.
$115: Savings, per year, each household can realize by weatherizing windows and doors.

Sources: Energy Outreach, Department of Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Canadian Parliament

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