Officials in Tucson say some public housing will soon be outfitted with solar panels to help generate electricity.
City officials say panels will be installed at 15 different public housing single-family homes that are part of Tucson’s community development and housing division. The panels are being installed with funding from the American Rescue Plan Act.
It’s a $300,000 project is part of the city’s Solar Empowerment program, which officials say aims to make solar energy more accessible for low-income residents who may struggle to pay for expensive, initial installation costs that don’t often have financing options.
Local leaders approved the plan in 2022 and say it’s part of the city’s larger climate resiliency plan for the coming years.
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Two of Arizona’s congressional Democrats joined forces on Wednesday to talk about housing affordability. Reps. Yassamin Ansari and Adelita Grijalva held a shadow hearing with members of their Progressive Caucus. -
Arizona Democrats have long wanted to place restrictions on corporations and landlords as part of their housing affordability plans. Now Republicans favor some parallel efforts. -
For the last several years, there’s been an effort to give cities back some of their ability to regulate that market; the state generally took it away in 2016. -
Democrats at the Arizona Capitol are hopeful that support from President Donald Trump is enough to convince their Republican counterparts to back a plan to stop out-of-state investors from buying up the state’s housing supply. -
Entering the final year of her first term in office, Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs called on state lawmakers to adopt a series of tax cuts that she says will benefit middle-class Arizonans. But those cuts don’t go far enough for the Republicans who control the state legislature.
