In the news

Engaging with the media plays a critical role in our knowledge exchange, allowing us to share information with a wider audience, connect with new partners and scale our impact beyond the borders of our county. Our team contributed its expertise to the following stories this year.

National

New America Displaced in the Sun Belt

The Conversation People have had a hard time weighing pandemic risks because they haven’t gotten information they needed when they needed it

Washington Post Extreme heat is killing people in Arizona’s mobile homes

El calor extremo está matando a la gente en las casas móviles de Arizona

Los Angeles Times

Poor neighborhoods bear the brunt of extreme heat, ‘legacies of racist decision-making’

“They fall between the cracks.”

Executive director Patricia Solis is featured in this article, in which she explains why mobile home residents are particularly vulnerable to extreme heat.

Slate

What COVID-19 Dashboards Aren’t Telling Us

“While facts and clarity alone will not solve misinformation or misunderstanding, improvements to COVID dashboards should decrease conjecture, senses of false security, and ambiguity.”

In this op-ed, Knowledge Exchange Circle member Michael Simeone, Gracie Valdez and Shawn Walker discuss the consequences of flawed data visualization and offer suggestions to improve the clarity of COVID-19 dashboards.

Local

ABC15 Arizona Arizona researchers look for ways to decrease heat deaths in trailers

ABC15 Arizona ASU model predicts 80,000 renters at risk for eviction when ban ends

Arizona Republic Heat killed a record number of people in Arizona last year, ‘a staggering increase’

Arizona’s Family Eviction moratorium set to expire July 31, putting Arizona renters at risk

Daily Independent Surveys going out in October on Gold Canyon community plan

FOX 10 Phoenix City of Phoenix offering Emergency Rental Assistance as eviction moratorium ends July 31

Arizona Republic

Low-income and Latino neighborhoods endure more extreme heat in the Southwest, study shows

“There’s great disparity in terms of investment. A lot of this is historical underspending, historical redlining, and it’s something that is an avoidable public health disaster that’s just waiting to happen.”

Melissa Guardaro, associate director for resilience hubs, is featured in this article on the inequitable impacts of extreme heat.

ASU News

ASU News Connecting the dots between redlining and heat resilience in Phoenix

ASU News Knowledge Exchange for Resilience gives ASU students invaluable experience ASU News Models of human heat strain don’t account for complexities

ASU News New data shows impact of COVID-19 on transportation

ASU News Post-moratorium evictions surge expected to compound health, housing crises

ASU News Researchers use crisis informatics to investigate people’s specific concerns with COVID-19, how they gather info

Arizona Republic

Report: 1 in 5 households evicted in Maricopa County hot spots

“Nearly all evictions that do reach the court system here in Maricopa County are decided in favor of the landlords.”

Lora Phillips, associate director for broader impacts, lends her expertise to this article, speaking to the factors behind Maricopa County’s particularly high eviction rate.

Notable mention

Our partners at Fervor Creative received a Rocky Mountain Emmy for Editor Content for their film highlighting last year’s Recognition of Resilience honorees.

Watch at resilience.asu.edu/recognition-of-resilience