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Housing

Posted inHousing

Tenants with nowhere to turn

Avatar photo by Jeremiah O. Rhodes August 24, 2023August 24, 2023

Across New Mexico, low-income renters face leaks, heat, mold, roaches — and no recourse.

Posted inChild & Family Welfare

Child Welfare Experts Say New Mexico Can’t Put Kids in Homeless Shelters Just Because It Lacks Other Beds

Avatar photo by Ed Williams December 7, 2022August 9, 2023

An expert report found that New Mexico’s child welfare system has housed foster kids in homeless shelters and other inappropriate settings.

Posted inFeatured

Helter shelter

Avatar photo by Michael Benanav September 19, 2022February 7, 2023

New Mexico cities resist building encampments, despite one’s success to the south

Posted inFeatured

Fire sale

Avatar photo by Alicia Inez Guzmán July 14, 2022August 3, 2023

‘Is your land for sale?’ Alarming offers to buy property in the burn zone leave some New Mexicans affronted

Posted inFeatured

Off the radar

Avatar photo by Alicia Inez Guzmán June 22, 2022August 3, 2023

2,300 homeless youths in Albuquerque — and most of them out of sight

Posted inFeatured

The other energy crisis

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Alicia Inez Guzmán and Luciana Perez Uribe Guinassi March 30, 2022August 17, 2022

Thousands of New Mexico households are struggling to keep the lights on and the water running. The ones who stand to lose the most: children.

Posted inEviction, Eviction Epidemic, Featured, Housing

Helped out

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Ike Swetlitz and Luciana Perez Uribe Guinassi December 22, 2021January 10, 2023

New Mexico landlords tried to evict nearly 200 households whose rental assistance applications were pending

Posted inEviction, Eviction Epidemic, Featured, Housing

Eviction Epidemic

Avatar photoAvatar photoAvatar photo by Ike Swetlitz, Luciana Perez Uribe Guinassi and Dillon Bergin November 3, 2021July 28, 2022

Searchlight analyzed 10 years of court records to find out which landlords evicted tenants. Here are the results.

Posted inEviction, Eviction Epidemic, Featured, Housing

Sectioned off

Avatar photo by Ike Swetlitz October 27, 2021July 28, 2022

With rent prices skyrocketing, more and more Albuquerque landlords have been refusing Section 8 tenants.

Posted inEviction, Eviction Epidemic, Featured, Full Archive, Housing , Your Right To Know

New Mexico’s affordable housing crisis has solutions

Avatar photo by Annabella Farmer October 6, 2021January 10, 2023

A Q&A with University of New Mexico law professor Serge Martinez

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