Poor in Tucson: How to Get Your Home Weatherized for Free
Consider it again.
Tucson Urban League’s Housing Resources Center helps low-income households to repair, renovate, and improve a home for maximum energy efficiency, at no cost to the owner or renter. This is no mere sticking of weather-stripping to the bottom of the doors either: low-income residents can expect to have their homes and energy use habits analyzed by experts, and improvements come in a variety of forms. In addition to such inexpensive and easy improvements as caulking and weather-stripping doors and windows, residents may qualify for new insulation in the attic, walls, and around ducts; water heater and exposed pipe insulation; attic ventilation; sunscreens; painting of roof and exposed ducts, service of an evaporative cooler; replacement of evaporative coolers or motors with two-speed motors, shade trees planted on south/west exposures; installation of an evaporative cooler thermostat; and installation of low-flow shower heads. Not every qualifying resident will receive all of these benefits, but even a few of these measures can have a dramatic effect on energy usage- resulting in reduced energy bills and a more comfortable home.
To qualify, residents need not own the home they reside in- renters also qualify. Household income must be at or below the 2006 Federal Poverty Income Guidelines, which means that a family of three must can gross no more than $2,075 a month ($24,900 annually) to qualify.
Think you may qualify? Contact Tucson Urban League or Pima County for an application!
Tucson Urban League
2305 S. Park Avenue Tucson, AZ 85713
(520)623-4388
Pima County Community Services Department CDBG
2797 E. Ajo Way Tucson, AZ 85713
(520) 243-6700