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Every five years Albuquerque has to report to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, on how the city is promoting fair housing for protected classes of people – based on things like race, religion, sex, or disability. The draft report assessing the city’s fair housing was published this week and it highlights Albuquerque’s housing inequities.
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This week the Santa Fe City Council unanimously passed the Midtown Master Plan, a framework for how the 64-acre city-owned property in the center of Santa Fe could be redeveloped after being largely vacant for more than four years.
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After four years of planning and a restart when a developer walked away from the project in early 2021, the Santa Fe Midtown Campus has a new master plan going to the city council Wednesday. It covers things like zoning and land use for sections of the parcel that would become homes, businesses, and parks.
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Albuquerque rents have risen more than 40% since March 2020, according to a report from Apartment List. But implementing rent control is not an option because there’s a statewide ban. Advocates came together Monday pushing for a reversal.
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It turns out, New Mexico’s story of a dearth of affordable housing and rents that just keep going up are mirrored around the country, but there is an exception – Albuquerque rents have risen more than many other cities. That’s according to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, which recently released its annual State of the Nation’s Housing report for 2022.
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Santa Fe is in desperate need of more housing, especially homes that are affordable to its working-class. Homewise, a non-profit that helps people with home ownership, wants to purchase an open lot where they’d build 160 homes, but neighbors say the project is not what they were promised.
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From helping people who are unhoused to addressing the lack of affordable homes in New Mexico, we have a serious problem with no easy or quick solution. There are some lawmakers who are trying to help though. On the latest from #YNMG we'll discuss some of the bills that have been filed to help with housing with KUNM reporter Alice Fordham.
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As housing prices skyrocket, unemployment persists and wages are stagnant, housing security has become urgent. A federal judge last week struck down the…
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Santa Fe developers have plans to build almost 400 apartments and townhomes on about 20 acres of vacant land next to the Zia Road Railrunner station. To…
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Democrats once again lost ground in much of the rural West. That includes Montana, where Republicans swept the election for the first time in at least...