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Miserable summer this year (lemmy.world)
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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

True story?

I don't know about other places, but in the U.S., generally if your house is fucked to the extent of being kindof uninhabitable (and I'd think no AC would qualify -- though maybe depending on local climate, that might not so much be seen as the case?), your landlord would have to get it fixed or pay for a hotel stay until it was fixed.

Or maybe in your case, it's more of a condo situation where you don't have a landlord.

Or maybe I'm off base thinking a lack of AC in July would qualify as sufficiently uninhabitable to require your landlord to be responsible for an alternate dwelling.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

AC not mandated in Texas

AC not mandated in LA, though that might change

In general, it’s a safe bet to just assume it’s not mandated and if it is or going to be there’s probably a landlord who opposes it.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Well shit. Every new thing I learn about the country I live in makes it shittier.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Dallas and Austin require air conditioning in units, while Houston landlords are only required to provide a cooling system if there are no screens on a unit’s doors and windows.

At least there's this, until the state steps in and makes it illegal for cities to require AC

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, there’s this too:

However, a small but growing number of U.S. states, cities and counties have adopted legislation that impose maximum indoor temperature standards on rental housing. In the last five years, six U.S. localities, including New Orleans and Clark County, Nevada, have adopted such cooling laws, compared with just seven in the previous two decades, according to Reuters' review of property codes and interviews with more than a dozen policymakers and housing officials.

But it shouldn’t have to be done at that minute of a level. State or federally it could (I argue should) be guaranteed as a basic necessity, just like water, power, sewer.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Window units are not that expensive. Unless landlord is a slumlord, if you say you’re gonna leave if said landlord doesn’t fork up for a window unit, they’ll probably do it. Evicting someone and getting a new tenant is much more of a hassle.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

A Reuters survey of housing regulations in all 50 U.S. states found that, while nearly half of them require landlords to maintain existing air conditioning units, none require that air-conditioning be provided. Nor do rental housing regulations describe air-conditioning as an essential service like plumbing, heat and electricity.

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