To the editor: Since California is writing the guide on pricing homebuyers, renters, landlords and builders out of the market, its newest effort deserves a complete chapter. Ordering cooling standards for all new housing and existing rental units will increase costs throughout the board and severely lower the housing provide.
Prolonged warmth waves have been widespread once I was rising up in Fresno with out air con in my grandmother’s house. Few faculties, church buildings and different public locations had air con then. What’s the fee of heat-related deaths now in comparison with the Fifties and ‘60s?
Now a senior, my house 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 thought 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 file of ignoring the market is what created that disaster, will solely make it worse with these sorts of directives.
Raymond Roth, Oceanside
