• 2 Posts
  • 1.32K Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 9th, 2023

help-circle

  • Criminals are housed and fed in exchange for staying away from regular society.

    The disabled are housed and fed in exchange for not having to watch them die of starvation in the streets.

    Having these institutions be nice places to live is secondary to their primary goals. Most of the time they’re out of sight, out of mind.






  • New residential construction should obviously have AC, but it’s not easy to fix older buildings without driving rents through the roof.

    If the building doesn’t have sufficient electrical capacity, that’s an extremely expensive upgrade that ultimately has to be passed on to renters.

    Even if there is electrical capacity, the insulation may be far below modern standards. The tenant also has to pay peak time of use electric rates to run the AC during the hot time of day, and unlike a homeowner has no ability to hedge their costs with solar panels.