More homes mean more heat. Can new building codes help save metro Phoenix from disaster?
Kathy Shows sits on bedding made of furniture pads laid out on the sidewalk at the corner of Jefferson and 12th Avenue near downtown Phoenix. At 11 p.m. on the 25th day of a record-breaking extreme heat wave, it’s still 99 degrees outside after a high of 116. Concrete cools slowly after the sun goes…