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Monday, July 27Issue 42

Human StoriesIn Maricopa County last year, 94% of people who died from heat indoors had an air conditioner in the room. It just wasn't working. We kept running into that distance putting this issue together. Sign the debris removal form and the government cleans your lot, but nothing in it tells you what happens to your insurance or your rebuild timeline. Arizona's utility moratorium keeps the power on through October while the bill doubles underneath. The protection is always there on paper. We're covering what happens between the paper and the body.SUBSCRIBE

Past Articles

July — Issue #42

Uneven Ground

A Block Where Everyone Chose Differently

Repeat flooding forced neighbors into permanent, uncoordinated choices. What remains is a street losing the density and the relationships that made it livable.

Solidarity and Fracture

What the Unit Doesn't

In Maricopa County, air conditioners were present in nearly every indoor heat death. The infrastructure of adaptation exists on paper. It fails the specific people it was supposed to protect.

Solidarity and Fracture

What the Building Holds

How layered public investment and years of community advocacy brought climate-ready air to a 121-year-old East Boston school, and why the daily labor of maintaining it matters more than the retrofit itself.