Rent

Legal experts spoke to lawmakers Tuesday, highlighting dishonest and possibly illegal actions landlords have been taking across New Mexico to earn extra money, which they said has combined with record high rents to form an "outrageous" and "shocking" rental market.

Housing expert with the Pew charitable Trusts, Alex Horowitz, gave a presentation to lawmakers Tuesday about New Mexico’s housing shortage, and possible solutions that have already been proven in several other states.

New Mexico’s poverty rate is sitting at 18.1%, which is 5.7% higher than the national average. This contributes to the state’s unstable housing challenges.

About half of renters in Albuquerque and Santa Fe are cost-burdened, meaning that they spend an outsized portion of their paychecks on rent. That’s according to a new study from Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, and those statistics are in line with much of the rest of the country.

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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Episode 39 is focused on migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees in our communities, and on Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers, which are…

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