Strictly looking at Denver, the city estimates about 30% of all homes lack central air conditioning, according to a 2021 city-issued report on renewable heating and cooling. Meanwhile, Denver is getting hotter.
问题是,这个新闻是美国自己发的啊 楼上一堆人是不是喷错方向了? Record heat waves illuminate plight of poorest Americans who suffer without air conditioning The 68-year-old covers his windows with mattress foam to insulate against the heat and sleeps in the concrete basement. He knows high temperatures can cause heat stroke and death, and his lung condition makes him more susceptible. But the retired brick layer, who survives on about $1,000 a month largely from Social Security, says air conditioning is out of reach. “Take me about 12 years to save up for something like that,” he said. “If it’s hard to breathe, I’ll get down to emergency.” https://apnews.com/article/heat-wave-low-income-race-death-air-conditioning-f897e336d6d99ee2a53024f42ad7b8b5
问题是,这个新闻是美国自己发的啊 楼上一堆人是不是喷错方向了? Record heat waves illuminate plight of poorest Americans who suffer without air conditioning The 68-year-old covers his windows with mattress foam to insulate against the heat and sleeps in the concrete basement. He knows high temperatures can cause heat stroke and death, and his lung condition makes him more susceptible. But the retired brick layer, who survives on about $1,000 a month largely from Social Security, says air conditioning is out of reach. “Take me about 12 years to save up for something like that,” he said. “If it’s hard to breathe, I’ll get down to emergency.” https://apnews.com/article/heat-wave-low-income-race-death-air-conditioning-f897e336d6d99ee2a53024f42ad7b8b5
“While billions in federal funding have been allocated to subsidize utility costs and the installation of cooling systems, experts say they often only support a fraction of the most vulnerable families and some still require prohibitive upfront costs. Installing a centralized heat pump system for heating and cooling can easily reach $25,000.” 讲了。小编没编。
中国编造美国的假新闻,这样屁民有满足感?LOL Record heat waves illuminate plight of poorest Americans who suffer without air conditioning The 68-year-old covers his windows with mattress foam to insulate against the heat and sleeps in the concrete basement. He knows high temperatures can cause heat stroke and death, and his lung condition makes him more susceptible. But the retired brick layer, who survives on about $1,000 a month largely from Social Security, says air conditioning is out of reach. “Take me about 12 years to save up for something like that,” he said. “If it’s hard to breathe, I’ll get down to emergency. While billions in federal funding have been allocated to subsidize utility costs and the installation of cooling systems, experts say they often only support a fraction of the most vulnerable families and some still require prohibitive upfront costs. Installing a centralized heat pump system for heating and cooling can easily reach $25,000. https://apnews.com/article/heat-wave-low-income-race-death-air-conditioning-f897e336d6d99ee2a53024f42ad7b8b5
中国编造美国的假新闻,这样屁民有满足感?LOL Record heat waves illuminate plight of poorest Americans who suffer without air conditioning The 68-year-old covers his windows with mattress foam to insulate against the heat and sleeps in the concrete basement. He knows high temperatures can cause heat stroke and death, and his lung condition makes him more susceptible. But the retired brick layer, who survives on about $1,000 a month largely from Social Security, says air conditioning is out of reach. “Take me about 12 years to save up for something like that,” he said. “If it’s hard to breathe, I’ll get down to emergency. While billions in federal funding have been allocated to subsidize utility costs and the installation of cooling systems, experts say they often only support a fraction of the most vulnerable families and some still require prohibitive upfront costs. Installing a centralized heat pump system for heating and cooling can easily reach $25,000. https://apnews.com/article/heat-wave-low-income-race-death-air-conditioning-f897e336d6d99ee2a53024f42ad7b8b5 TEMUPDD 发表于 2023-08-02 23:54
中国编造美国的假新闻,这样屁民有满足感?LOL Record heat waves illuminate plight of poorest Americans who suffer without air conditioning The 68-year-old covers his windows with mattress foam to insulate against the heat and sleeps in the concrete basement. He knows high temperatures can cause heat stroke and death, and his lung condition makes him more susceptible. But the retired brick layer, who survives on about $1,000 a month largely from Social Security, says air conditioning is out of reach. “Take me about 12 years to save up for something like that,” he said. “If it’s hard to breathe, I’ll get down to emergency. While billions in federal funding have been allocated to subsidize utility costs and the installation of cooling systems, experts say they often only support a fraction of the most vulnerable families and some still require prohibitive upfront costs. Installing a centralized heat pump system for heating and cooling can easily reach $25,000. https://apnews.com/article/heat-wave-low-income-race-death-air-conditioning-f897e336d6d99ee2a53024f42ad7b8b5 TEMUPDD 发表于 2023-08-02 23:54
Record heat waves illuminate plight of poorest Americans who suffer without air conditioning 开楼贴是直接翻译的美联社七月三十号的文章,原文找到了 攒十二年钱和25000刀装都黑体了 https://apnews.com/article/heat-wave-low-income-race-death-air-conditioning-f897e336d6d99ee2a53024f42ad7b8b5 As climate change fans hotter and longer heat waves, the poorest Americans often suffer the hottest days with the fewest defenses. Centralized air, once a luxury, is now more a matter of survival. (July 30) (AP Video: Thomas Peipert, Brittany Peterson) By JESSE BEDAYN Updated 5:55 PM CDT, July 30, 2023 DENVER (AP) — As Denver neared triple-digit temperatures, Ben Gallegos sat shirtless on his porch swatting flies off his legs and spritzing himself with a misting fan to try to get through the heat. Gallegos, like many in the nation’s poorest neighborhoods, doesn’t have air conditioning. The 68-year-old covers his windows with mattress foam to insulate against the heat and sleeps in the concrete basement. He knows high temperatures can cause heat stroke and death, and his lung condition makes him more susceptible. But the retired brick layer, who survives on about $1,000 a month largely from Social Security, says air conditioning is out of reach.“Take me about 12 years to save up for something like that,” he said. “If it’s hard to breathe, I’ll get down to emergency.” As climate change fans hotter and longer heat waves, breaking record temperatures across the U.S. and leaving dozens dead, the poorest Americans suffer the hottest days with the fewest defenses. Air conditioning, once a luxury, is now a matter of survival. As Phoenix weathered its 27th consecutive day above 110 degrees (43 Celsius) Wednesday, the nine who died indoors didn’t have functioning air conditioning, or it was turned off. Last year, all 86 heat-related deaths indoors were in uncooled environments. “To explain it fairly simply: Heat kills,” said Kristie Ebi, a University of Washington professor who researches heat and health. “Once the heat wave starts, mortality starts in about 24 hours.” It’s the poorest and people of color, from Kansas City to Detroit to New York City and beyond, who are far more likely to face grueling heat without air conditioning, according to a Boston University analysis of 115 U.S. metros. Ben Gallegos pulls back a covering to show the foam pad used to insulate a window in his family''''s home in the Globeville neighborhood as the daytime high temperature soars toward triple digits, Thursday, July 27, 2023, in north Denver. Gallegos has taken several measures to keep his home cool in spite of lacking central air conditioning. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) A shirtless man guides his wheelchair down the bicycle lane along 45th Avenue as tempratures rise toward triple digits in the Globeville neighborhood Wednesday, July 26, 2023, in north Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) “The temperature differences ... between lower-income neighborhoods, neighborhoods of color and their wealthier, whiter counterparts have pretty severe consequences,” said Cate Mingoya-LaFortune of Groundwork USA, an environmental justice organization. “There are these really big consequences like death. ... But there’s also ambient misery.” Some have window units that can offer respite, but “in the dead of heat, it don’t do nothing,” said Melody Clark, who stopped Friday to get food at a nonprofit in Kansas City, Kansas, as temperatures soared to 101, and high humidity made it feel like 109. When the central air conditioning at her rental house went on the fritz, her landlord installed a window unit. But it doesn’t do much during the day. So the 45-year-old wets her hair, cooks outside on a propane grill and keeps the lights off indoors. She’s taken the bus to the library to cool off. At night she flips the box unit on, hauling her bed into the room where it’s located to sleep. As far as her two teenagers, she said: “They aren’t little bitty. We aren’t dying in the heat. ... They don’t complain.” While billions in federal funding have been allocated to subsidize utility costs and the installation of cooling systems, experts say they often only support a fraction of the most vulnerable families and some still require prohibitive upfront costs. Installing a centralized heat pump system for heating and cooling can easily reach $25,000. President Joe Biden announced steps on Thursday to defend against extreme heat, highlighting the expansion of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which funnels money through states to help poorer households pay utility bills. While the program is critical, said Michelle Graff, who studies the subsidy at Cleveland State University, only about 16% of the nation’s eligible population is actually reached. Nearly half of states don’t offer the federal dollars for summer cooling. “So people are engaging in coping mechanisms, like they’re turning on their air conditioners later and leaving their homes hotter,” Graff said. While frigid temperatures and high heating bills birthed the term “heat or eat,” she said, “we can now transition to AC or eat, where people are going to have to make difficult decisions.” As temperatures rise, so does the cost of cooling. And temperatures are already hotter in America’s low-income neighborhoods like Gallegos’ Denver suburb of Globeville, where people live along stretches of asphalt and concrete that hold heat like a cast-iron skillet. Surface temperatures there can be roughly 8 degrees hotter than in Denver’s wealthier neighborhoods, where a sea of vegetation cools the area, according to the environmental advocacy group American Forests. This disparity plays out nationwide. Researchers at the University of San Diego analyzed 1,056 counties and in over 70%, the poorest areas and those with higher Black, Hispanic and Asian populations were significantly hotter. About one in 10 U.S. households have no air conditioning, a disparity compounded for marginalized groups, according to a study by the Brookings Institution. Less than 4% of Detroit’s white households don’t have air conditioning; it’s 15% for Black households. At noon on Friday, Katrice Sullivan sat on the porch of her rented house on Detroit’s westside. It was hot and muggy, but even steamier inside the house. Even if she had air conditioning, Sullivan said she’d choose her moments to run it to keep her electricity bill down. Riverside Cemetery is seen in front of an oil refinery in Commerce City, Colo., on Tuesday, July 25, 2023. Residents in the area say fumes from the refinery and the lack of trees make their neighborhood hotter. As climate change fans hotter and longer heat waves, breaking record temperatures across the U.S. and leaving dozens dead, the poorest Americans suffer the hottest days with the fewest defenses. Air conditioning, once a luxury, is now a matter of survival. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert) The 37-year-old factory worker pours water on her head, freezes towels to put around her neck, and sits in her car with the air conditioner on. “Some people here spend every dollar for food, so air conditioning is something they can’t afford,” she said. Shannon Lewis, 38, lived in her Detroit home for nearly 20 years without air conditioning. Lewis’s bedroom was the only place with a window unit, so she’d squeeze her teenager, 8-year-old and 3-year-old-twins into her queen-size bed to sleep, eat meals and watch television. “So it was like cool in one room and a heat stroke in another,” Lewis said. For the first time, Lewis now has air conditioning through a local non-profit, she said. “We don’t have to sleep or eat in the same room, we are able to come out, sit at the dining room table, eat like a family.” 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 conditioning units. By and large, however, states don’t have laws requiring landlords to provide cooling. In the federal Inflation Reduction Act, billions were set aside for tax credits and rebates to help families install energy-efficient cooling systems, but some of those are yet to be available. For people like Gallegos, who doesn’t pay taxes, the available credits are worthless. The law also offers rebates, the kind of state and federal point-of-sale discounts that Amanda Morian has looked into for her 640-square-foot home. Morian, who has a 13-week-old baby susceptible to hot weather, is desperate to keep her house in Denver’s Globeville suburb cool. She bought thermal curtains, ceiling fans and runs a window unit. At night she tries to do skin-to-skin touch to regulate the baby’s body temperature. When the back door opens in the afternoon, she said, the indoor temperature jumps a degree. “All of those are just to take the edge off, it’s not enough to actually make it cool. It’s enough to keep us from dying,” she said. Lucy Molina stands in her front yard in Commerce City, Colo., on Tuesday, July 25, 2023. Without central air conditioning, the single mother’s home in one of the Denver metro’s poorest areas has reached 107 degrees Fahrenheit (41.7 Celsius), she said. America’s poorest residents and people of color are far more likely to face grueling heat without air conditioning to keep their body temperatures down, according to a Boston University analysis of 115 U.S. cities. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert) She got estimates from four different companies for installing a cooling system, but every project was between $20,000 and $25,000, she said. Even with subsidies she can’t afford it. “I’m finding that you have to afford the project in the first place and then it’s like having a bonus coupon to take $5,000 off of the sticker price,” she said. Lucy Molina, a single mom in Commerce City, one of Denver’s poorest areas, said her home has reached 107 degrees without air conditioning. Nearby, Molina’s two teenage children slurped popsicles to cool off, lingering in front of the open freezer. For Molina, who bustled around her kitchen on a recent day when temperatures reached 99 degrees outdoors, it’s hard to see any path to a cooling respite. “We’re just too poor,” she said.
原文里说了,十三周娃这家有个窗机,但是抵不住三位数高温。 Morian, who has a 13-week-old baby susceptible to hot weather, is desperate to keep her house in Denver’s Globeville suburb cool. She bought thermal curtains, ceiling fans and runs a window unit. At night she tries to do skin-to-skin touch to regulate the baby’s body temperature. When the back door opens in the afternoon, she said, the indoor temperature jumps a degree. “All of those are just to take the edge off, it’s not enough to actually make it cool. It’s enough to keep us from dying,” she said.
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哈哈哈哈,就跟台湾说大陆人吃不起茶叶蛋一样。。。
还有移动式的。你家里窗口能够打开吗?
正在温习《上新了故宫》。
如果比较大的house比较老的要建air duct,去年我有个小房子报价2w.
这种新闻,不是给咱们看的😄
我怎么有个印象,国内普通家庭,大半都是装那种一个房间一个的空调?这类空调叫什么名字我忘了。
难道我这印象落伍了吗?国内现在绝大多数家庭都普及中央空调了吗?
美國很多家庭都沒現金吃飯了 只能刷卡應急
装不上空调可能是的 吃不饱我不信,可以拿SNAP food stamp,还有community center, church发食物
COSTCO里有那种可移动的空调,才400刀,家里备两个,哪屋需要放哪里,怎么就不行了?穷人要有穷人的活法,谁说非得上中央空调了
没住过不需要空调的州 好奇你们的供暖是怎么安排的呢?
我住过的房子和公寓全是中央空调 夏天冷气冬天暖气是一套系统
你这都是老黄历了
稍微好点的牌子性能好点的,就要上万了
像楼下说的“换俩主机也要几万”
对啊,明明portable AC就2-3百刀,二手的更便宜
Strictly looking at Denver, the city estimates about 30% of all homes lack central air conditioning, according to a 2021 city-issued report on renewable heating and cooling. Meanwhile, Denver is getting hotter.
还包括刨地三尺geo thermal pump 安装呢
自己用冰块制冷应该更更便宜
或者去捡人家扔掉的
这算啥,我还有国内亲戚问我,是不是美籍华人的财产都要没收呢,我只好说,那等我下个月从夏威夷度假回来赶紧把房子先卖了
这样屁民有满足感
Record heat waves illuminate plight of poorest Americans who suffer without air conditioning
The 68-year-old covers his windows with mattress foam to insulate against the heat and sleeps in the concrete basement. He knows high temperatures can cause heat stroke and death, and his lung condition makes him more susceptible. But the retired brick layer, who survives on about $1,000 a month largely from Social Security, says air conditioning is out of reach. “Take me about 12 years to save up for something like that,” he said. “If it’s hard to breathe, I’ll get down to emergency.”
https://apnews.com/article/heat-wave-low-income-race-death-air-conditioning-f897e336d6d99ee2a53024f42ad7b8b5
里面有讲装个空调要25k吗?
中央空调的话,2万5,都装不下来吧,感觉至少要3万。
很多美国家庭确实装不起中央空调,装得起,谁一个卧室一个窗式机啊,嗡嗡嗡吵得脑壳疼。
分体式空调,我姐家新房装的是中央空调,因为铺地板加走中央空调管道家里层高低了一些。
装中央空调一般在建房装。很少有后来加管道从开始装的。月收入1000$的,装得起也用不起的。买个窗式不就行了。好多旅馆都是窗式。
这个英文文章里没说装空调要25 k啊。这个就是小编自己加的。
难道我住的是假美国?哪家美国人没空调啊?!自住房一般都是有中央空调的,就跟马桶一样是必需品。建房子的时候就安装空调了。空调一般用个十几二十年没有问题,就算坏了也只用换外面的机子,几千美元而已。 租房子的房东都会配置空调的。然后穷人住的政府房也是有空调的。美国除了那些四季常春不太需要空调的地方,我真想不出来哪里会没有空调。
“While billions in federal funding have been allocated to subsidize utility costs and the installation of cooling systems, experts say they often only support a fraction of the most vulnerable families and some still require prohibitive upfront costs. Installing a centralized heat pump system for heating and cooling can easily reach $25,000.”
讲了。小编没编。
中国编造美国的假新闻,这样屁民有满足感?LOL
Record heat waves illuminate plight of poorest Americans who suffer without air conditioning
The 68-year-old covers his windows with mattress foam to insulate against the heat and sleeps in the concrete basement. He knows high temperatures can cause heat stroke and death, and his lung condition makes him more susceptible. But the retired brick layer, who survives on about $1,000 a month largely from Social Security, says air conditioning is out of reach. “Take me about 12 years to save up for something like that,” he said. “If it’s hard to breathe, I’ll get down to emergency.
While billions in federal funding have been allocated to subsidize utility costs and the installation of cooling systems, experts say they often only support a fraction of the most vulnerable families and some still require prohibitive upfront costs. Installing a centralized heat pump system for heating and cooling can easily reach $25,000.
https://apnews.com/article/heat-wave-low-income-race-death-air-conditioning-f897e336d6d99ee2a53024f42ad7b8b5
九十度以上四十多天居然没空调?
呵呵这种无人问津的报道小编也能挖掘出来,文章第二段就算讲了安装整个heat pump 和空调可能要reach 25k , 并不指那个一月挣1000$攒十二年就要装这个种系统。这种收入十二年一万块钱的空调也装不起的,装上utility 也付不起。就是断章取义。
再怎么着也不是中国编造的假新闻
还有ABC News也变成无人问津的报道了, 你赢了
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/record-heat-waves-illuminate-plight-poorest-americans-suffer-101850838
哈哈哈哈,打脸来得好快
这个不到150美元的美的空调不能用么?13周的孩子难道不能用这个空调?
这空调只要能扛起40斤大米的,就可以搞定安装,不用花一分钱。当然,十指不沾泥的仙女们估计得找人安装,可那也不能算穷人了吧。
吃不饱不应该啊
Record heat waves illuminate plight of poorest Americans who suffer without air conditioning
开楼贴是直接翻译的美联社七月三十号的文章,原文找到了
攒十二年钱和25000刀装都黑体了
https://apnews.com/article/heat-wave-low-income-race-death-air-conditioning-f897e336d6d99ee2a53024f42ad7b8b5
As climate change fans hotter and longer heat waves, the poorest Americans often suffer the hottest days with the fewest defenses. Centralized air, once a luxury, is now more a matter of survival. (July 30) (AP Video: Thomas Peipert, Brittany Peterson) By JESSE BEDAYN Updated 5:55 PM CDT, July 30, 2023
DENVER (AP) — As Denver neared triple-digit temperatures, Ben Gallegos sat shirtless on his porch swatting flies off his legs and spritzing himself with a misting fan to try to get through the heat. Gallegos, like many in the nation’s poorest neighborhoods, doesn’t have air conditioning. The 68-year-old covers his windows with mattress foam to insulate against the heat and sleeps in the concrete basement. He knows high temperatures can cause heat stroke and death, and his lung condition makes him more susceptible. But the retired brick layer, who survives on about $1,000 a month largely from Social Security, says air conditioning is out of reach. “Take me about 12 years to save up for something like that,” he said. “If it’s hard to breathe, I’ll get down to emergency.”
As climate change fans hotter and longer heat waves, breaking record temperatures across the U.S. and leaving dozens dead, the poorest Americans suffer the hottest days with the fewest defenses. Air conditioning, once a luxury, is now a matter of survival.
As Phoenix weathered its 27th consecutive day above 110 degrees (43 Celsius) Wednesday, the nine who died indoors didn’t have functioning air conditioning, or it was turned off. Last year, all 86 heat-related deaths indoors were in uncooled environments. “To explain it fairly simply: Heat kills,” said Kristie Ebi, a University of Washington professor who researches heat and health. “Once the heat wave starts, mortality starts in about 24 hours.” It’s the poorest and people of color, from Kansas City to Detroit to New York City and beyond, who are far more likely to face grueling heat without air conditioning, according to a Boston University analysis of 115 U.S. metros.
Ben Gallegos pulls back a covering to show the foam pad used to insulate a window in his family''''s home in the Globeville neighborhood as the daytime high temperature soars toward triple digits, Thursday, July 27, 2023, in north Denver. Gallegos has taken several measures to keep his home cool in spite of lacking central air conditioning. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) A shirtless man guides his wheelchair down the bicycle lane along 45th Avenue as tempratures rise toward triple digits in the Globeville neighborhood Wednesday, July 26, 2023, in north Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) “The temperature differences ... between lower-income neighborhoods, neighborhoods of color and their wealthier, whiter counterparts have pretty severe consequences,” said Cate Mingoya-LaFortune of Groundwork USA, an environmental justice organization. “There are these really big consequences like death. ... But there’s also ambient misery.” Some have window units that can offer respite, but “in the dead of heat, it don’t do nothing,” said Melody Clark, who stopped Friday to get food at a nonprofit in Kansas City, Kansas, as temperatures soared to 101, and high humidity made it feel like 109. When the central air conditioning at her rental house went on the fritz, her landlord installed a window unit. But it doesn’t do much during the day. So the 45-year-old wets her hair, cooks outside on a propane grill and keeps the lights off indoors. She’s taken the bus to the library to cool off. At night she flips the box unit on, hauling her bed into the room where it’s located to sleep. As far as her two teenagers, she said: “They aren’t little bitty. We aren’t dying in the heat. ... They don’t complain.”
While billions in federal funding have been allocated to subsidize utility costs and the installation of cooling systems, experts say they often only support a fraction of the most vulnerable families and some still require prohibitive upfront costs. Installing a centralized heat pump system for heating and cooling can easily reach $25,000. President Joe Biden announced steps on Thursday to defend against extreme heat, highlighting the expansion of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which funnels money through states to help poorer households pay utility bills. While the program is critical, said Michelle Graff, who studies the subsidy at Cleveland State University, only about 16% of the nation’s eligible population is actually reached. Nearly half of states don’t offer the federal dollars for summer cooling. “So people are engaging in coping mechanisms, like they’re turning on their air conditioners later and leaving their homes hotter,” Graff said. While frigid temperatures and high heating bills birthed the term “heat or eat,” she said, “we can now transition to AC or eat, where people are going to have to make difficult decisions.”
As temperatures rise, so does the cost of cooling. And temperatures are already hotter in America’s low-income neighborhoods like Gallegos’ Denver suburb of Globeville, where people live along stretches of asphalt and concrete that hold heat like a cast-iron skillet. Surface temperatures there can be roughly 8 degrees hotter than in Denver’s wealthier neighborhoods, where a sea of vegetation cools the area, according to the environmental advocacy group American Forests. This disparity plays out nationwide. Researchers at the University of San Diego analyzed 1,056 counties and in over 70%, the poorest areas and those with higher Black, Hispanic and Asian populations were significantly hotter. About one in 10 U.S. households have no air conditioning, a disparity compounded for marginalized groups, according to a study by the Brookings Institution. Less than 4% of Detroit’s white households don’t have air conditioning; it’s 15% for Black households. At noon on Friday, Katrice Sullivan sat on the porch of her rented house on Detroit’s westside. It was hot and muggy, but even steamier inside the house. Even if she had air conditioning, Sullivan said she’d choose her moments to run it to keep her electricity bill down. Riverside Cemetery is seen in front of an oil refinery in Commerce City, Colo., on Tuesday, July 25, 2023. Residents in the area say fumes from the refinery and the lack of trees make their neighborhood hotter. As climate change fans hotter and longer heat waves, breaking record temperatures across the U.S. and leaving dozens dead, the poorest Americans suffer the hottest days with the fewest defenses. Air conditioning, once a luxury, is now a matter of survival. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)
The 37-year-old factory worker pours water on her head, freezes towels to put around her neck, and sits in her car with the air conditioner on. “Some people here spend every dollar for food, so air conditioning is something they can’t afford,” she said. Shannon Lewis, 38, lived in her Detroit home for nearly 20 years without air conditioning. Lewis’s bedroom was the only place with a window unit, so she’d squeeze her teenager, 8-year-old and 3-year-old-twins into her queen-size bed to sleep, eat meals and watch television. “So it was like cool in one room and a heat stroke in another,” Lewis said. For the first time, Lewis now has air conditioning through a local non-profit, she said. “We don’t have to sleep or eat in the same room, we are able to come out, sit at the dining room table, eat like a family.” 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 conditioning units. By and large, however, states don’t have laws requiring landlords to provide cooling. In the federal Inflation Reduction Act, billions were set aside for tax credits and rebates to help families install energy-efficient cooling systems, but some of those are yet to be available. For people like Gallegos, who doesn’t pay taxes, the available credits are worthless. The law also offers rebates, the kind of state and federal point-of-sale discounts that Amanda Morian has looked into for her 640-square-foot home. Morian, who has a 13-week-old baby susceptible to hot weather, is desperate to keep her house in Denver’s Globeville suburb cool. She bought thermal curtains, ceiling fans and runs a window unit. At night she tries to do skin-to-skin touch to regulate the baby’s body temperature. When the back door opens in the afternoon, she said, the indoor temperature jumps a degree. “All of those are just to take the edge off, it’s not enough to actually make it cool. It’s enough to keep us from dying,” she said. Lucy Molina stands in her front yard in Commerce City, Colo., on Tuesday, July 25, 2023. Without central air conditioning, the single mother’s home in one of the Denver metro’s poorest areas has reached 107 degrees Fahrenheit (41.7 Celsius), she said. America’s poorest residents and people of color are far more likely to face grueling heat without air conditioning to keep their body temperatures down, according to a Boston University analysis of 115 U.S. cities. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert) She got estimates from four different companies for installing a cooling system, but every project was between $20,000 and $25,000, she said. Even with subsidies she can’t afford it. “I’m finding that you have to afford the project in the first place and then it’s like having a bonus coupon to take $5,000 off of the sticker price,” she said. Lucy Molina, a single mom in Commerce City, one of Denver’s poorest areas, said her home has reached 107 degrees without air conditioning. Nearby, Molina’s two teenage children slurped popsicles to cool off, lingering in front of the open freezer. For Molina, who bustled around her kitchen on a recent day when temperatures reached 99 degrees outdoors, it’s hard to see any path to a cooling respite. “We’re just too poor,” she said.
原文里说了,十三周娃这家有个窗机,但是抵不住三位数高温。
Morian, who has a 13-week-old baby susceptible to hot weather, is desperate to keep her house in Denver’s Globeville suburb cool. She bought thermal curtains, ceiling fans and runs a window unit. At night she tries to do skin-to-skin touch to regulate the baby’s body temperature. When the back door opens in the afternoon, she said, the indoor temperature jumps a degree. “All of those are just to take the edge off, it’s not enough to actually make it cool. It’s enough to keep us from dying,” she said.
这里这些应该是美国最贫困的人群。
没那么便宜,最低得一万多。
通胀这么高,钱白存了
看地区的
是这个价钱,它指装duct, heater, air conditioner 全套系统。我家五🈷️刚全装了2⃣️个,四万多。
差不多,现在是两万多的价格。
芝加哥那年熱死一堆人(1995?) 我去大賣場扛了一台類似的
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