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Title: Air Conditioning Utility Allowances for Public Housing


1
Air Conditioning Utility Allowancesfor Public
Housing
  • Meeting with
  • U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
  • Entergy Services, Inc.
  • December 2002

2
Home cooling is no longer considered an energy
luxury.
3
Hot weather is as deadly, if not more so, than
cold weather.
4
Even paying cooling bills does not make public
housing costs in warm weather states unreasonably
high.
  • Low-Income Heating Cooling Costs
  • Northeast 558 (includes 39 cooling)
  • Midwest 491(includes 63 cooling)
  • South 446 (includes 174 cooling)
  • West 274 (includes 68 cooling)
  • Source
  • LIHEAP Home Energy Notebook for FY 2000
  • Table A5c and A6

5
Air conditioning is not merely a luxury, it is a
health and safety protection.
  • According to the Center for Disease Control,
    air conditioning is the number-one protective
    factor against heat-related illness and death.
    Not even electric fans provide protection against
    heat-related illness
  • Electric fans may provide comfort, but when the
    temperature is in the high 90s, fans will not
    prevent heat-related illness. Taking a cool
    shower or bath or moving to an air-conditioned
    place is a much better way to cool off. Air
    conditioning is the strongest protective factor
    against heat-related illness. Exposure to air
    conditioning for even a few hours a day will
    reduce the risk for heat-related illness.
  • One study concluded flatly that air-conditioning
    has the effect of reducing heat-related mortality
    in U.S. cities. In New York City alone, for
    example, 21 of all heat-related deaths that
    occurred between 1964 and 1988 could have been
    avoided by air conditioning.
  • National Fuel Funds Network
  • When Weather Kills (June 2002)

6
Entergy requests that HUD take the following
actions
  • HUD should agree to pay for air conditioning and
    cooling consumption on same basis as heating.
  • At a minimum, HUD should agree that in
    communities where air conditioning penetration
    reaches 70, HUD will pay air conditioning costs.
  • HUD should issue an immediate directive
    explaining that HUDs ban on payment of air
    conditioning costs is not a ban on cooling costs
    and directing that LHAs promulgate separate
    cooling utility allowances.

7
For more information
  • roger_at_fsconline.com
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