Green housing mandates are pushing Americans more into the red

The Biden administration picked a bad time to roll out its new "green" energy housing mandates, which will add $31,000 to the cost of a new home.

E. J. Antoni is a research fellow for regional economics in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis and a senior fellow at Committee to Unleash Prosperity.

The Biden administration doesn’t deny this higher upfront cost. It simply claims it’ll pay for itself via lower energy bills. Unfortunately, the breakeven point is 90 years. 

So if a young couple buys one of these new "green" energy homes and has a child one year later, the regulatory costs still won’t have paid for themselves in that child’s lifetime, let alone the life of the couple who bought the home.