To the editor: These of us working to develop, construct and function reasonably priced housing in California perceive higher than anybody the urgency of constructing a whole bunch of hundreds of models to deal with our state’s housing disaster. It merely isn’t true that constructing reasonably priced housing is in pressure with our state’s local weather insurance policies, as columnist George Skelton suggests.
My job as director of sustainable design for one of many state’s largest reasonably priced housing builders is to establish the lowest-cost pathway to constructing houses whereas maximizing long-term financial savings. Based mostly on economics alone, we select to construct houses with electrical warmth pumps and rooftop photo voltaic, a choice that eliminates fuel payments, lowers electrical energy payments and shields households from long-term utility price escalation.
Skelton misunderstands the state’s present coverage panorama. California already requires rooftop photo voltaic on most new building, and that’s a very good factor. The typical family in a brand new residence saves $420 yearly by way of the requirement. Our state’s most up-to-date constructing code additionally makes warmth pumps the usual in new building beginning in 2023.
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s efforts to speed up our state’s local weather work is not going to create these constructing necessities, as a result of they exist already. And the actual fact is, we are able to construct extra housing, extra rapidly and extra affordably, by forgoing fossil fuels.
Tim Kohut, Rancho Cucamonga
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To the editor: Newsom isn't the one one who's touting conflicting messages. Anybody who helps constructing, shopping for and consuming is supporting local weather change and the demolition of the planet.
We can't save Earth and preserve taking from it on the similar time. Clearly, we have to discover a steadiness between the 2.
A lot is claimed about homeless folks or “the unhoused.” What in regards to the over-housed? The individuals who have a number of homes and inhabit just one? Or the individuals who have “solely” one home, however it’s a mega mansion with a couple of thousand sq. toes per inhabitant?
They're those pulling an excessive amount of from the Earth. May somebody please perform a little research to learn the way many sq. toes of viable housing goes unused each day on this bountiful state?
Mary VanValkenburgh, Lengthy Seashore
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