, it is the first publicly funded office in the U.S. that deals specifically with heat. The director, David Hondula, is Guardaro and Solís’s colleague at A.S.U.
In 2018, Solís began a project researching the relationship between the location of heat-related deaths and where Maricopa County residents were receiving need-based financial assistance with their utility bills. There wasn’t enough aid to prevent deaths, yet her map told her that across the metro area at least some assistance was getting to many people who needed it.
Solís established relationships with the residents of trailer parks, including representatives of the Arizona Association of Manufactured Home and R.V. Owners, who co-authored research papers with her. They set up heat sensors inside mobile homes. The highest indoor temperature they recorded was a hundred and eleven degrees, the median was eighty-two degrees, and the average ranged between seventy-three and ninety-five degrees.
Whether they moved to the Phoenix area in recent years or have spent their entire lives there, the people Solís and Guardaro work with are proud of their neighborhoods. Guardaro introduced me to Augie Gastelum, whose parents brought him to Phoenix from Mexico when he was five years old. They settled in Mesa’s Water Tower Improvement District—a neighborhood that gets its name from the
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