Insider: Kansas City Housing 'Green New Deal' Would Send Prices Skyrocketing

Back in May our blog community was the first KCMO newsy outlet to call out council lady Andrea Bough for her sketchy environmental plan.

For those who don't remember her cringe-y AOC imitation . . . Here are the basics of her scheme courtesy of a lesser blog . . .

Councilwoman Andrea Bough, District 6 at-large, is proposing a new set of building codes that would make new developments more energy efficient.

“We as a council have made the decision through various years to take climate protection resiliency seriously,” Bough said. “This is our opportunity to address one of those existential crises that we face as a city. We can do something. We can act.”

Kansas City currently operates under the 2012 International Energy Conservation Code. The updated codes, published in 2021, propose further changes for new residential and commercial buildings.

The plan essentially aims to make buildings more energy-efficient and help them last longer. The codes also include wiring buildings for eventual electrification, even if they use fossil fuels like natural gas when they are first built.

Now . . .

INSIDERS RAMP UP THEIR CRITICISM OF KC'S CLANDESTINE GREEN NEW DEAL BECAUSE IT THREATENS MASSIVE HOUSING COST INCREASES AMID A GLOBAL RECESSION!!!

Here's the word . . . 

"At a time when we need more building at affordable prices, this legislation accomplishes the opposite of that . . . The requirements are so cost prohibitive that only millionaires will be able to buy new homes in Kansas City. I don't understand the council here . . . They tell us that they want 'affordable' housing and then nearly double the costs of building anything in Kansas City.

"Whoever devised this ordinance doesn't know anything about how construction really works and they're doing a disservice to people they supposedly trying to help." 

Developing . . .