Due to the affordable housing crisis in the Eastern Coachella Valley, Polanco farmworker communities have identified and practiced an owner-occupied, community-based cooperative solution. Families purchased land and older used mobile homes—but climate change demands greater protection from heat waves, heat illness, pollution, and floods. In January 2024, Pueblo Unido completed the construction of the first Polanco community-designed single-family AgriHousing demonstration unit using green building principles—a 3-bedroom, 2-bath, climate-resilient home designed by and for farmworkers.