Home builders have used their political muscle to prevent states and cities from adopting the latest code, which would lower the climate impact of new houses
“A federal study found that North Carolina’s proposed code update would have added at most about $6,500 to the price of a newly built home, not $20,400. According to the analysis, these changes would have paid for themselves through lower power bills…”
I feel like if you’re buying a NEW house, and $6500 extra is too much, you shouldn’t be buying a house…
What’s important here is that the lower bills would have paid for the higher mortgage. But this wouldn’t benefit the homebuilders, so they fought it
If we’re building efficient homes, can we at least put ethernet ports in every room? I’m tired of having to essentially run conduit about the house.
Yes, if you have a house built, you can certainly ask for that to be included. That basically goes for anything you can afford to have added to your new house. But this is generally off-topic.
Yeah the home builders fighting these building codes don’t actually seem to care about “affordability.” With mortgages spreading out the cost of buying a home over several decades the tiny increase in cost is way more than offset by the energy savings. If I were to buy a new construction home I would expect it to be the most efficient home on the market… You can get an older home for less and then make the energy upgrades yourself otherwise
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