Lamplighter Inn housing conversion on ice with funding set to expire The long-delayed motel conversion will have to go back to the drawing board after it was not able to bridge a funding gap, leaving it about $5 million short.

Great example of why I have been arguing for creating durable housing expertise within state government. Dept of Finance Admin screwed up the expenditure date on this funding by a year and blew up this project and are likely going to have to send $4.2m back to the feds as a result 🤦🏻‍♂️

They are definitely structured to prevent local taxation control and frankly shield the wealthy AFAICT

Samta Fe’s mansion tax is a one-time fee on homes over $1m. But having a different level of annual property tax on second homes is illegal under the NM constitution.

Canadian-based company seeks exploratory permit to drill uranium in northern New Mexico • Source New Mexico Gamma Resources Ltd filed a notice of intent last month to drill up to 12 500-foot-deep holes in search of uranium in Rio Arriba County.

this area is on the continental divide trail, the headwaters of Rito Creek and tributaries to the Chama River and some utterly beautiful wilderness. Mining in these areas, esp for uranium, is unconscionable

A flyer with red background and teal lettering that announces a housing advocacy meetup on Thursday March 19th 5:30 at the Rufina Taproom in Santa Fe New Mexico. Topics for the meeting include naming the group and starting to work on the platform for advocacy.

Let’s go Santa Fe
Tonight!

Think about it. When cars are parked, they’re not driving and generating GHG’s 🙄

its happening in Santa Fe as well. First rent decreases in decades

Austin’s Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents After decades of explosive growth, Austin, Texas, in the 2010s was a victim of its own success. Lured by high-tech jobs and the city’s hip reputation, too many people were competing for too few homes....

We need to have a conversation about supply skepticism in the housing and homelessness provider community ASAP

and not just urbans- large fire trucks drive a ton of extra housing costs in rural and suburban areas by demanding wider road widths and mandatory hammerheads and turnaround that eat up buildable area reducing housing density. Smaller fire trucks everywhere!

is the data on the rest of the state's available anywhere?

It’s usually a not-insignificant lift and bathed in NIMBY tears. Is your community considering land use updates? if so that could be really impactful. I’d also look at the ordinance or charter language establishing the commission and see if it has strategic duties beyond just approving projects.

While the internet is obsessed with the Platner drama- this is the real shit that flies under the radar, people in/from Maine have a really different lens on Mills.

Just when I thought we were no longer capable of receiving good news

neat, that unexploded ordinance costs more than the entire annual Federal housing funding for my small city.

A fridge magnet featuring Goerge W. Bush that says “put me on your fridge or the terrorists win”

Longing for simpler times

This is meme legislating

The one next to it is Volcan Agua. Maybe it was just an elements theme?

Can confirm!

Or high revenue commercial uses like STR

Someday we should pass laws to mandate making them only able to use small Japanese fire trucks. Sweet sweet revenge and road standards rejoice

*income 🙄

We’re now at 150% AMI for housing programs in New Mexico. In higher i come counties this is well into 6-figure incomes. It’s bonkers. The worst part is we’re already seeing funding pulled away from the lowest income/hardest to serve folks.

Makes sense: Lower income folks are often the first to feel supply driven cost increases as well

NM legislature has passed a bill that exempts affordable rental projects from paying gross receipts tax on construction. This will make more projects feasible and reduce the practice of having raise gap funding from local governments, just to turn around and pay it back to them in GRT.

All that and zero meaningful statewide organizing

Such a bummer. Housing reform got equally clobbered

This has to be a top justification for supply skepticism. You just never know how much worse it could be without the added supply

Housing Funding in the 2026 New Mexico Legislative Session If we can't get structural change, I guess we'll settle for $100 million

Quick rundown on the $100m in housing funding coming in the House budget bill.

New Mexico Senate sends Immigrant Safety Act to governor for signature • Source New Mexico The New Mexico Senate on Feb. 3, 2026, passed the Immigrant Safety Act banning contracts for federal immigration detention.

Big moves: New Mexico bans public contracts for ICE detention and prohibits local law enforcement from entering into formal partnerships with ICE. sourcenm.com/briefs/new-m...

I can’t tell who I hate more fascists or pedophiles. Oh wait 🤔