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Highly recommend NYers send this to their representatives:
Subject: Reconsider New York’s All-Electric Mandate
Dear [Representative’s Name],
I am writing as a resident of [City] deeply concerned about New York’s new mandate requiring all new homes to be built all-electric. While it is framed as a climate initiative, in reality this law makes our state’s severe housing crisis worse, raises costs for families, and delivers no meaningful benefit to global emissions.
New York already has one of the least builder-friendly environments in the country. Our inventory shortage drives prices higher every year, yet this mandate adds another costly hurdle that will reduce the number of new homes built. Families are being priced out, and some counties are now denying building permits because the grid cannot even support the demand created by all-electric requirements. Blocking construction in this way guarantees fewer homes, higher costs, and more families displaced or unhoused.
Even if these hardships were justified by climate impact, the math simply doesn’t hold. New York accounts for less than 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Nothing our state does will alter the global trajectory if large emitters like China and India continue to expand their output. Methane concerns, often used as the justification for phasing out natural gas, are overstated. Leakage rates are low, falling due to better technology, and nowhere near large enough to erase the environmental benefits of natural gas compared to coal or oil. Yet New Yorkers are being forced to shoulder costs that will not make any real difference in climate outcomes.
If New York ever had a leadership role in showing the nation how to address housing effectively, this mandate only erodes it further. Leadership requires building solutions that people can trust and replicate. By pursuing symbolic policies that worsen housing affordability and deliver no measurable climate benefit, our state is not leading. It is undermining its credibility and driving people away.
And if we judged this policy purely in terms of outcomes, it becomes clear that it isn’t about climate change or emissions at all. The real effect is to benefit the wealthy, who can absorb higher housing costs and access subsidies, while leaving middle- and working-class families to shoulder the burden. This is a transfer of costs downward, a policy that helps the few at the top and punishes everyone else.
This law reflects symbolic politics, not real solutions. It prioritizes virtue signaling over affordability, and it punishes ordinary families while the wealthiest can easily absorb higher housing costs and take advantage of subsidies. That is not climate leadership. It is policy failure that erodes public trust.
I urge you to take action:
1. Repeal or amend the all-electric mandate to allow choice of heating and cooking systems in new housing.
2. Prioritize housing affordability and inventory growth above symbolic climate measures that do nothing to address global emissions.
3. Insist on transparency going forward. Policies of this scale should not be buried in the state budget but debated and voted on openly.
Please stand up for housing, affordability, and energy choice in New York. Families in Troy and across the state cannot afford the consequences of this law.
Thank you for your attention.
Sincerely,
[Your Full Name]
[City, NY]
[Your Contact Information]
@NYSenate
@NYSA_Majority
@NYS_AM
@NYSenDems
@nysenategop
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