Daniel Werwath

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 🤔

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ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.

expect to see the NIMBY’s greet this with at least the same hostility they would a new apartment project in their neighborhood

“If we don't take action now
We settle for nothing later
Settle for nothing now
And we'll settle for nothing later”

RATM hitting differently lately

Covid- “housing is health care”
Fashy times- “housing keeps you from being disappeared“

Housing Bills- 2026 New Mexico Legislative Session Housing bill tracker spreadsheet and upcoming hearings

did a quick post on some highlight for New Mexico State housing legislation. danielwerwath.substack.com/p/housing-bi...

2026 Legislative Tracker .xlsx

I've created a spreadsheet to track housing bills in the New Mexico legislature this session. I'll do my best to update regularly.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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New Mexico House Finance Committee will have its main hearing on housing funding this afternoon at 1:30 today. Zoom link in comments.

Yes investment is a whole other post… coming soon!

Aside from basically mimicking the Trump admins yaya approach to homelessness and the problematic civil rights implications- maybe it’s best we pass this so we can disprove it once and for all as an anecdotal and ineffectual approach to homelessness And move on to real strategies.

In reality it’s a housing shortage and affordability crisis that’s driving NM’s growth in homelessness and the only way to address it is permanent supportive housing (very affordable housing paired with behavioral health) and addressing the structural issues driving NM’s housing shortage. (2)

Senate committee approves bill to expand involuntary mental health treatment The governor said the current system "confuses compassion with neglect." Opponents say the changes violate the rights of people with disabilities.

The Governor has some (let’s politely call them) unconventional ideas about homelessness. This is at the core of them- a preoccupation with high acuity chronic homelessness, and a belief that our inability to commit chronic homeless with behavioral issue is what’s driving the problem. (1)

Bill would require New Mexico cities to report building permit processing times A Homewise Inc. official says the measure would celebrate local government successes, but others say it would shame cities with long delays.

This would be a big step away from our current vibes-based approach to housing
www.santafenewmexican.com/news/busines...

I started using one to track indoor co2 during Covid and it’s really fucked a bunch of things up

Maine should secede and join Denmark

what will it take to get politicians off demand-side housing interventions. literally throwing fuel on the affordability fire.

When ICE goes down, can it please take with it:
-Militarization of domestic police forces
-the Tac-Bro LARPER clothing aesthetic
-HD mall cruiser trucks on 22’s with lifts and straight pipes
Thank you

We Can Have Nice Things | Stephanie Nakhleh | Substack Stephanie Nakhleh is a journalist from Los Alamos covering how policy shapes daily life. She writes about systems, housing, and local government—and what it takes to build a future that works better f...

Four days from the start of the 2026 New Mexico Legislative Session and I'm tracking 25 housing bills and funding proposals. As of today, only one has been profiled. Stay tuned for blog posts and a live stream on housing policy starting Monday the 26th with Stephanie Nakhleh on her substack