Whenever I need sun I go outside. Or usually I’m at work where there are massive windows and great views of the city.
Many homeless can and do choose the streets over shelters even at severe risk of dying to exposure, for reasons often involving schizophrenia and the many hazardous inmates around.
So I’m not really keen on the argument that letting developers create anti-human structures would magically result in loads more useful structures for the homeless. That argument continues to completely ignore what the homeless need.
If I wanted elevated student suicides and mental health issues, and increased homeless deaths to cold, windowless prison cells sounds like a great candidate to try.
This article and the underlying politics seems to be confused because it's confusing a bedroom and a living space. For college dorms obviously that's likely to be the same thing. But the problem here is arising from not having windows in a living space (e.g. where someone studies), not a bedroom.
If this proposed regulation (no comment on if it's a good idea) were to make any sense it should be saying "areas of an apartment where people are likely to spend a lot of time not sleeping should have a window", not areas intended for sleeping. If the apartment is one room those might be the same thing, of course. If I had an apartment with one bedroom and one other room, I'd rather have the window in the other room.
Is this the same community that champions human-centered design and architecture, a la Christopher Alexander, Jane Jacobs, etc.?
Charlie Munger donated most of the money to build this awful dorm at the University of Michigan:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/02/business/munger-residences-mi...
Plans for a similar building at UC Santa Barbara were fortunately scrapped:
https://www.independent.com/2023/11/09/goodbye-dormzilla-hel...
I prefer waking up from the sunlight though, so I can’t imagine being in a room with no windows.
