Are You Willing to Replace Your Gas Appliances with Electric Appliances? Say NO!

Are You Willing to Replace Your Gas Appliances with Electric Appliances? Say NO!

SAY NO to the SCAQMD’s Plan to Force Property Owners to Install Electric Appliances

Please…help us to push back against the South Coast Air Quality Management District’s (SCAQMD) harmful mandate. The SCAQMD Board is expecting to vote on two costly, proposed amended Rules (PAR) 1111 and 1121, which the Apartment Association and a coalition of more than 70 organizations are strongly opposing.  

The SCAQMD Board is scheduled to meet and vote on Friday, June 6, 2025, on more than $7.7 billion in hidden fees that will increase housing and energy costs, and we need you there with us. We need YOU to attend the Governing Board meeting, either in-person or over Zoom, and provide public comment for one minute to persuade the Board to VOTE NO on PAR 1111 and 1121!

These proposed, costly amended rules give residents a false choice and will cost homeowners and property owners by more than $1,500 per housing unit to comply, assuming that no major electrical upgrades are required and does not consider the higher cost of electricity. This is a rule that we simply cannot afford.

Help us to win this fight and oppose these costly amended rules PAR 1111 and 1121.

WHAT:         SCAQMD Governing Board Meeting

WHEN:        Friday, June 6, 2025, at 9:00 a.m.

WHERE:     Dr. William A. Burke Auditorium, South Coast AQMD Headquarters, 21865 Copley Drive, Diamond Bar, California 91765

ZOOM:        Link: https://scaqmd.zoom.us/j/93128605044
Zoom Webinar ID: 931 2860 5044

This is the last chance to defeat this…We will not have another chance to push back against the SCAQMD’s costly mandate again!

Here Are Some Talking Points

• Proposed Amended Rules 1111 and 1121 will have a huge financial impact on all SCAQMD constituents – forcing them to pay higher costs to shift to all electric furnaces and water heaters or pay a fee (no one can afford right now or ever) to stick with the less costly natural gas options.
• Californians are already struggling with the state’s worsening affordability crisis.  There are several causes for rising consumer and housing costs including the threat of tariffs, budget cuts and regulations.  We need to pause these proposed SCAQMD mandates that add to these expenses to consumers, while looking for more cost-effective alternatives to achieve worthy goals.
• Utility costs are rising at a rapid rate and universal mandates to require all-electric homes and apartments increase the cost of new home construction and increases the pressure on first time homebuyers to save even larger down payments or finance larger mortgages that push homeownership out of reach for thousands of Californians.
• The rules will hurt renters who will pay more for utilities and multifamily property owners will face costly upgrades to electric panels, wiring and plumbing – that will drive up rents.
• Requirements to replace existing appliances, including furnaces and water heaters, with all-electric models impose significant costs to consumers at a time they can least afford it.  Not only are these appliances more expensive, but they can also often require costly electrical panel upgrades, wiring modifications, and changes to venting or plumbing.  Mandating such replacements without significant financial assistance could disproportionately affect low-income households, renters, and those on fixed incomes, leading to regressive outcomes and potential hardship.
• The electric grid is not ready to handle increased loads by all-electric mandates, and electric heat pumps have proven less reliable than other alternatives with Consumer Reports disclosing that 30% of these models are failing at just half of their projected lifespan.
• These proposed SCAQMD mandates should be paused to allow sufficient time for technology and electric grid improvements to help facilitate the shift to all-electric appliances without adding significant burdens to consumers. We’re seeing in all our research that voters are extremely sensitive to anything that increases their cost of living, and are getting very angry over utility, housing, food and gas costs.
• These rules are not a market solution.  Make no mistake, they are mandates.  And worse, the costs are not worth the emission reductions that won’t begin until 2029 at the earliest and won’t be fully realized until 2061 by staff’s admission. 
• There are better ways to achieve NOx emission reductions through technology and tougher emission requirements, and there certainly is time for better collaboration among all interested parties to figure this out.
• This will be the first SCAQMD rule that broadly impacts consumers, and the board should spend more time to get this right rather than spark a firestorm that will hurt real progress through collaboration down the road. 
• There has been little or no outreach. Many property owners, renters and our members and others in the region seem to be just hearing about this now, and there needs to be broader and better outreach to advance such sweeping rules.

Help Us to Help You!

If you have grown as tired as we have about these constant attacks against rental housing providers and too much harmful regulation, then please help support the AAGLA political action committee (AAGLA PAC) so we can help elect politicians who are sympathetic to the needs of rental housing providers and not drive us out of business. Please give today