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Housing

Posted inChild & Family Welfare

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

by Ed Williams December 7, 2022February 16, 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

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

by Alicia Inez Guzmán July 14, 2022November 3, 2022

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

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Off the radar

by Alicia Inez Guzmán June 22, 2022January 12, 2023

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

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The other energy crisis

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

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

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

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

by Annabella Farmer October 6, 2021January 10, 2023

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

Posted inEviction, Eviction Epidemic, Featured, Housing

Motel of last resort

by Luciana Perez Uribe Guinassi and Don J. Usner September 23, 2021July 28, 2022

Amid a housing crisis, a Motel 6 in Albuquerque offers shelter for those in dire need

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