This article was originally published in The Conversation. In the past few years, the city of Austin, Texas, has approved the construction of thousands of windowless rooms in new apartment buildings ...

As temperatures exceeded 90 degrees in San Francisco this week, those in jail — both inmates and sheriff’s deputies alike — struggled with the sweltering heat, trapped in a largely windowless building ...

Have you ever lived in a bedroom without a window? They're not rare, especially in student housing, including in Austin, Texas, where developers have built thousands of them. But as Audrey McGlinchy ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – Council Member Zohaib “Zo” Qadri is bringing a resolution to the Sept. 14 council meeting to start looking for ways to close a “loophole” that allows developers to build apartment ...

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Housing advocates are debating whether windowless bedrooms are the solution to the housing crisis. A severe housing shortage and empty office buildings has prompted some to call for loosening ...

Sunlight is not an amenity; it’s a basic human necessity. Let there be light!(Shutterstock) A strange opinion that’s been floating around lately is that we need to accept windowless bedrooms as an ...