Poder Casas Móviles (Mobile Home Power) is a group of mobile home park residents and our allies fighting for our rights to fair, healthy and affordable housing.
Poder Casas Móviles give free housing and eviction legal advice, organizes Know Your Rights trainings for mobile home and manufactured home residents, gives emergency housing and utility grants for mobile home park residents behind on rent payments (when funding is available), and organizes to change policies that impact the lives of mobile home and manufactured housing residents.
We have currently run out of funding for our Housing and Utility Support Grants and are seeking donations to help replenish. Through this fund households who are experiencing a hardship and have fallen behind on their rent can receive a one time grant of $500 to help pay back rent and avoid eviction. Please donate here!
We are currently conducting a survey of mobile home park / manufactured housing community residents in Southern Arizona so we can best tailor our Know Your Rights workshops and our advocacy work.
Mobile Home Park and Manufactured Housing Community Residents in AZ: Fill out the survey here!
Our mission is to educate the mobile home community about our housing rights so we can defend ourselves and protect our homes against:
Our vision is to achieve resilient communities and safe housing by:
Photo: Supporting a member of Poder Casas Móviles in painting her house to prevent eviction
In a survey of 100 mobile home park residents in Tucson, the most commonly cited problem was problems with overcharging for utilities, followed by problems with reliability of utility service and rent increases.
The majority of those experiencing problems with both utility cost and service have a master meter for the park, which is then submetered to each home with a park owned meter. The customer with the utility in these cases is technically the mobile home park. These customers do not have the same rights as direct customers of the utility, are afforded fewer protections, and have less access to utility sponsored resources.
This inefficiency in heating and cooling has costs far beyond high utility bills. MH residents in Arizona are 8 times more likely to die from heat-related causes than those in site built homes. In 2023, 40% of indoor heat related deaths occurred within MH and RVs.
Poder Casas Móviles is partnering with the City of Tucson and Pima County to do outreach for residential rehabilitation services administered by the City of Tucson and Pima County. We are so excited that this region has received federal funds to dedicate specifically to repairing (and in some cases replacing) manufactured homes in Pima County. The announcement for funding was just announced in December 2024 so the program is not yet up and running; we will have more information on our website and social media when it has launched!
For more information, write to us at podercasasmoviles@gmail.com
Send us a message or join our mailing list by entering your information here. We will get back to you as soon as possible. If you have received an eviction notice and need immediate assistance, please contact Pima County EELS at 520-724-3357.
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Website creation supported with funding from the City of Tucson Housing and Community Development Department and Tucson Pima Collaboration to End Homelessness.