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by hlandau 797 days ago
I have no idea why I would want a window in a bedroom (aside from as a fire exit). It seems more likely to be a nuisance.

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.