A new round of federal funding is headed to Tucson for a project to equip mobile homes for climate change.
The city is receiving $1.5 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Officials say the grant is the latest step in a 2012 city housing plan that identified mobile homes as the single-most affordable type of housing.
A 2019 study from the University of Arizona found roughly 10% of Tucson residents live in mobile homes — about double the rate in Phoenix. But those structures can be prohibitively expensive to cool down and they aren’t well equipped to handle rising temperatures due to climate change.
The funding will be used to revamp or replace mobile homes with more climate resilient models, and provide utility assistance to low and middle income occupants.
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