Diego Garcia loves his house in Montbello, but it’s been missing something: air conditioning.
Like many aging homes in Denver, it was built for the cooler climate of the 1970s — leaving the Garcias to sweat through the summers of the 2020s, hoping for relief from fans and open windows.
All that changed last week. Garcia and his family were among hundreds of expected beneficiaries of a new city pilot program to install air conditioning in neighborhoods vulnerable to extreme heat.
He said they’d use the newfound cooling to spend more time indoors — but not just to sit around and watch TV…