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Federal government through the housing authorities, are getting a law together, to mandate all new homes have a storm shelter built and all existing homes have one before sale or in 3 years or face a stiff penalty.
Spouting all the building will stimulate the economy.
Only example of this I could find, was a bill a couple of years ago in the Senate.
Couldn't find anything current.
Link/reference?
BTW, was this storm-shelter mandate supposed to include the 20,000,000 or so people in Southern California, who historically have more chance of getting hit by lightning than getting hit by a tornado?
What parts of their household budgets are they supposed to reduce or give up, to build these oh-so-needed storm shelters?
Let's suppose Grandma is living on fixed income, now along comes this law telling her she has to spend $5K on shelter.... On top of that it of course will need to be an inspected and approved model, the contractors know the you have to buy it no matter what so there is little incentive to keep prices in check etc.
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