Any regulation like this should come with cost subsidies. Too many of us are left with the choice of doing The Right Thing™ or being able to afford to live.
Fuck that, why do all the people in the picture look like landlords? Because they are, and unless I’m mistaken that’s literally Derek Barnes from the EBRHA the landlord lobby!
This isn’t about poor homeowners, this is about corporations, hiding behind small landlords, to keep poisoning the air in the properties they hoard for income!
Climate change is class war, and once you zoom in to who are the loyal foot soldiers of big oil, it’s the same landlords and small business owners that block bike lanes.
If you’re not from the Bay Area it might not be obvious but 90% of the protests that mercury news covers are fake protests by landlords and small business owners.
There’s also a conflict of interest where the landlord is often not responsible for paying for electricity or gas costs, those are usually tenant responsibilities. The only utility that’s common for landlords to pay is water. Tenants do not have control over the mechanical systems of the buildings they rent and thus are forced to pay for whatever system the landlord chooses even if it is more expensive for them
The problem is that doing the wrong thing also has a large cost in the form of medical expenses, that is allocated to people at random. They’re supposed to weigh those two things.
I agree, and I’ve got good news. California has multiple programs to aid in the upgrade to solar, like the DAC-SASH program, which will completely cover the cost in low-income areas, or the PACE financing program that lets you borrow the money against the house and pay it off over 30 years via additional property tax.
There’s more, but it’s a little weird that nobody else has brought this up at all.
Any regulation like this should come with cost subsidies. Too many of us are left with the choice of doing The Right Thing™ or being able to afford to live.
Fuck that, why do all the people in the picture look like landlords? Because they are, and unless I’m mistaken that’s literally Derek Barnes from the EBRHA the landlord lobby!
This isn’t about poor homeowners, this is about corporations, hiding behind small landlords, to keep poisoning the air in the properties they hoard for income!
Climate change is class war, and once you zoom in to who are the loyal foot soldiers of big oil, it’s the same landlords and small business owners that block bike lanes.
If you’re not from the Bay Area it might not be obvious but 90% of the protests that mercury news covers are fake protests by landlords and small business owners.
There’s also a conflict of interest where the landlord is often not responsible for paying for electricity or gas costs, those are usually tenant responsibilities. The only utility that’s common for landlords to pay is water. Tenants do not have control over the mechanical systems of the buildings they rent and thus are forced to pay for whatever system the landlord chooses even if it is more expensive for them
The problem is that doing the wrong thing also has a large cost in the form of medical expenses, that is allocated to people at random. They’re supposed to weigh those two things.
This might help you understand why poor people appear to make “bad” choices:
https://terrypratchett.com/explore-discworld/sam-vimes-boots-theory-of-socio-economic-unfairness/
That this is even an issue goes back to a broad social decision to not have single-payer medical care
I agree, and I’ve got good news. California has multiple programs to aid in the upgrade to solar, like the DAC-SASH program, which will completely cover the cost in low-income areas, or the PACE financing program that lets you borrow the money against the house and pay it off over 30 years via additional property tax.
There’s more, but it’s a little weird that nobody else has brought this up at all.
Nice. This should be federal.