Posted on 01/18/2022 6:04:23 AM PST by AbolishCSEU
Top New York politicians demanded Monday that Congress impose new regulations on privately-run housing complexes that receive federal subsidies in the aftermath of the horrific Bronx housing tower fire that left 17 people dead — including eight children.
The new rule would require landlords to install temperature monitors in buildings where tenants receive housing vouchers to ensure that apartments are receiving the required amounts of heat.
FDNY officials believe the initial cause of the deadly fire was a space heater in a third-floor apartment at the high-rise at 333 East 181 Street — and several malfunctioning self-closing doors allowed the deadly smoke to quickly fill the building.
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I write "for now" because I'm sure it will be mandated statewide with or without subsidization. The theory is that the poooooooor tenants are living in ice cold apts because the eeeeeevvvviiiiiil landlords aren't fixing the heat.
I can tell you from my own experience and from having worked in the Section 8 dept of a mid-sized city that most urbanites can NEVER have the apt too warm. When the temp outside dropped below 65, we would get inundated with "no heat" calls. At which point we had to state that:
1. 72 is "room temperature" not 85
2. just because you don't hear the furnace running, doesn't mean it is broken. there is such thing as a thermostat and cycling.
Just recently, I rented to a tenant from the city and she, despite having the boiler system at full crank, was using space heaters. It had to be at least 85 degrees F in there. Hubby was literally sweating.
Same tenants refuse to put on a sweater and go around in shorts as though it were summer out
Space heater control. First rule: Don’t be a dumbass.
But with no new Natural gas hookups space heaters will be the main source of heat from now on. What bloody idiots NY politicians are…
Don’t use extension cords with space heaters.
“””Top New York politicians demanded Monday that Congress impose new regulations”””
And why should other states be burdened with some new Federal Regulations just because the Fire Marshalls in New York are incompetent?????
Fix your own problems NEW YORK and quit bothering the rest of us.
Keep paper and clothes away from them. Never put wet clothes on top of one to dry. Only buy space heaters with pendulum shut-offs.
the doors didn’t “malfunction”, they were proped open by the tenants!
Portable? WTF.
BINGO! again, most low-income tenants have little regard to safety and are geared toward convenience. Live for today attitude is quite prevalent.
Oh. Misunderstood. What ever happened to steam radiators?
Let’s be honest here … New York (city and state) is governed by a bunch of effing losers.
I keep reading that the doors “malfunctioned” does that mean the closing device can’t be manually overridden by simply pushing on the door to close it? Or was the tenet too fook’n stupid to know to close the door.
I suspect the latter.
What would a temperature monitor do, which smoke alarms already accomplish? Not NY but it is standard to have smoke alarms in every room. The batteries are always expired because the poor would rather have take out.
Boilers are fueled by Natural Gas, which NY has deemed “OrangeManBad...”
They also like to sleep with open windows.
I would say WTF, but I already know WTF it is. Leftards stupid, dangerous psychos.
The damned things are broken, because they go off over a cigarette or a pot of burnt spaghetti, and people smack them until they STFU.
No AC during the summer, you put a box fan in the window.
No, no. The temp sensors are not for the heat of a fire. They are to monitor room temperature so that the evil landlord must provide enough heat.
My guess is that such “temperature monitors” are really meant for less benign control purposes, but the paid off pols are taking advantage of this tragedy to get the proverbial camel’s nose in the tenement tent.
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