Loss of another Tempe trailer park highlights lack of affordable housing

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.

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