To the editor: Since California is writing the handbook on pricing homebuyers, renters, landlords and builders out of the market, its newest effort deserves an entire chapter. Ordering cooling requirements for all new housing and present rental items will increase costs throughout the board and critically lower the housing provide.
Prolonged warmth waves have been frequent after I was rising up in Fresno with out air-con in my grandmother’s dwelling. Few colleges, church buildings and different public locations had air-con then. What’s the charge of heat-related deaths now in comparison with the Nineteen Fifties and ‘60s?
Now a senior, my dwelling of 20 years doesn’t have air-con, and I disconnected my furnace 10 years in the past to save lots of on my utility invoice, all with no sick well being penalties.
Do these elitist legislators and regulators have any concept of the price of such upgrades? Do they care? Or do they simply need to impose their requirements on the remainder of us?
Whereas California’s housing scarcity is already a disaster, its pricing displays the relative worth of heating, air-con and myriad different facilities. State legislators, whose confirmed report of ignoring the market is what created that disaster, will solely make it worse with these sorts of directives.
Raymond Roth, Oceanside
