Native Vote 2026. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Floor-to-ceiling windows separated two Albuquerque community kitchens inside the Street Food Institute. In one kitchen, New Mexico candidate for governor Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) outlined an affordability plan she said would support the people who worked in the kitchen across the hall, where silver trays clanked during afternoon cleanup as she spoke on Wednesday.
Haaland stressed the importance of food and housing costs in her affordability platform for New Mexicans.
“It’s expensive to be poor,” Haaland said before following with proposals to increase the state’s minimum wage to $14.50 from the current $12 per hour rate, expand its child tax credit, create investments in renewable energy, ban rental price fixing and predatory lending, and increase available housing through reforms in short-term rental and building development policies…