NEW YORK — THE CITY COUNCIL on Thursday passed Councilmember Lincoln Restler’s Cool Homes For All legislation, which requires landlords to provide cooling systems for tenants at their request, mirroring existing legislation around supplying heat in the winter.
The Department of Housing Preservation and Development will conduct enforcement starting in summer of 2030, and will conduct outreach to landlords and tenants. According to a press statement from the council, the four-year onramp will create time to secure energy subsidies in Albany to support the program, and is timed around other city energy-efficiency laws…