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After at least 54 died during a 2021 heat wave, mostly elderly people without air conditioning, in the Portland area, Oregon passed a law prohibiting landlords from placing blanket bans on air ...
Arizona is among 19 states with shut-off protections, leaving about half of the U.S. population without safeguards against losing electricity during the summer, the National Energy Assistance ...
Sacramento’s homeless and low-income renters fare the worst in heat waves that climate change is making more intense. ‘A survival game’: Sacramento’s heat wave is dangerously hot for those ...
The July 1995 Chicago heat wave led to 739 heat-related deaths in Chicago over a period of five days. [1] Most of the victims of the heat wave were elderly poor residents of the city, who did not have air conditioning, or had air conditioning but could not afford to turn it on, and did not open windows or sleep outside for fear of crime. [2]
In 2020, the Kansas City Council passed the Tenants Bill of Rights, which states that rental units must have heat, but it doesn’t guarantee the right to air conditioning. In Kansas, it’s the same.
Heat intolerance is a symptom characterized by feeling overheated in warm environments or when the surrounding environment's temperature rises. [1] Typically, the ...
Hundreds of thousands of southeast Texas residents are entering the sixth day in a row suffering brutal heat without air conditioning and many are scrambling to find cool shelters, food, safe ...
If a landlord is found to be retaliating, he or she will not be able to evict the tenant, who may also be awarded damages from the landlord of one to three months' rent plus attorney's fees. The landlord also cannot willfully deprive the tenant of heat, hot water, gas, electricity, lights, water, or refrigeration service. Nor can the landlord ...