By Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | The Republic
Forty-two mobile homes and families must move after Tempe Mobile Home Park was sold to a developer, underscoring a problem in Tempe: an affordable housing shortage.
More than a third of Tempe residents pay 30 percent or more of their paychecks for housing, which experts say is a too much. Tempe’s cost-burden, which factors in housing costs and personal incomes, is among the highest in the Valley and higher than the national average.