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July 22 was the planet’s hottest day on record, and 2024 is on track to be its hottest year .
The question of who will and won’t receive cooling is rapidly becoming a political battle.
In Maricopa County , Arizona , the Department of Public Health recorded 156 heat-related deaths indoors in 2023 , a sizable portion of the total death toll of 645 .
Frida Ghitis: Fewer than half of state governments require rental property owners to maintain their AC units.
She says cities have passed maximum-temperature laws requiring landlords to cool their properties to a livable degree.
Ghitis says air conditioning should be a basic human right, but landlords are trying to weasel out of it.
Tenants want the best possible living conditions at a price they can afford on their paychecks.
Landlords want to expend as little money and effort as possible to provide barely adequate living conditions, while charging the highest rent they can possibly get away with.
The fight over residential cooling is one of the starkest examples of class conflict in the U.S. today .
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