fuel-poor

(chiefly, UK, Ireland, New Zealand) The inability of a household to keep adequately warm at a reasonable cost.

(British, slang) Lacking in funds; without assets; poor.

(US, idiomatic) In a condition of poverty as a result of inability to meet tax payments or other financial requirements for one's land holdings.

With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.

Of low quality.