Bernalillo County Commissioner Barbara Baca speaks before a front end loader parked on a dirt lot that will soon become an affordable apartment complex on Albuquerque’s West Side, thanks to a new round of state funding. (Photo by Patrick Lohmann / Source NM)
The allocation of $83 million for housing and homelessness projects in the Albuquerque area will empower local officials to get 1,000 people off the street by next July, local leaders said at a news conference Tuesday.
The New Mexico Legislature approved about $140 million for housing programs during the legislative session earlier this year. Elected state and local officials gathered at a dirt lot on Albuquerque’s West Side on Tuesday to celebrate the arrival of most of that money for projects in the state’s biggest metropolitan area…