Editorial: It's getting hotter in L.A. A/C is no longer a luxury, but a safety requirement

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Editorial: State and local leaders need to start treating cooling as essential to health and safety as heating or smoke detectors, and required for housing to be considered habitable. (via latimesopinion)

California is experiencing the most dangerous heat wave of the year, but efforts by state lawmakers to protect residents from these climate-fueled disasters seem to have largely fizzled out.

Martinez’s motion appropriately focuses on tenants who are largely at the mercy of landlords, who may not provide air-conditioning units or even allow tenants to use their own. A home should be a place of refuge, but that’s often not the case in older housing that tends to be poorly insulated and lack air conditioning.

 

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