[LWVNM Action] Housing Report/MLG -Western Governors Conference 6/23/ SFeReport_2025

[Janie McGuigan]

Hello all,

In reviewing the *Governor/WGA Chair's Brand West Housing Report *there are
many innovative ideas and initiatives put forth from each of the Western
Governor's states for creating more housing for all income levels, e.g.:
 addressing zoning and land use restrictions to facilitate development of
multi-family housing projects; supporting low cost housing alternatives
such as modular and manufactured housing; and increasing middle housing for
middle income renters/homeowners to ease the spillover impact on low income
housing, etc.  Many of these programs could be replicated in our State.

However, (my editorial comments to follow),  ironically, the Governor had
the 'nerve' to tout the *New Mexico Governor's Office of Housing *as a best
practice in the Brand West Report, after she fired the Executive Director
and closed the Office of Housing and utilized many of the Office's ideas in
the Brand West Report.  And, as an aside, did not support a bill in the
2025 Legislative Session requesting $450M in funding to go to the NM
Mortgage Finance Authority to create urgently needed affordable housing.
Quite disappointing in my opinion... just saying.

Best,
Janie McGuigan


On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM Judy Williams via Action <
action at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:

> I just skimmed the housing doc, will read more.  I assume (I hope) she is
> not talking about Federal land sales.  One of the items we discussed with
> the SF city manager today was the enormous bureaucratic hurdles to getting
> anything built in Santa Fe County.  The revised revamped, revolutionized,
> whatever you want to call it Land Use Code rewrite is due to the City
> Councilin July.  The manager is (somewhat) optimistic.  b But they still
> have too any hoos to jump through, plus NIMBYism.  Judy
>
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM kwentworth17--- via Action <
> action at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:
>
>> Meredith-
>>
>> Thank you. This is very interesting.
>>
>> Karen
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Action <action-bounces at mailman.swcp.com> on behalf of Meredith
>> Machen via Action <action at mailman.swcp.com>
>> *Sent:* Monday, June 23, 2025 4:04 PM
>> *To:* Lwvnm Action Meetings <action at mailman.swcp.com>
>> *Cc:* Meredith Machen <meredith.machen at gmail.com>
>> *Subject:* [LWVNM Action] Housing Report/MLG -Western Governors
>> Conference 6/23/ SFeReport_2025
>>
>> Housing is one of the focus areas of the Western Governors meeting now
>> and tomorrow. Each of the 5 cabinet secretaries at the conference will be
>> giving a keynote.
>>
>> Rally participants are advocating for protecting our public lands, our
>> education system and funding, health care, and more.
>>
>> Linda McMahon is speaking about education policy tonight.
>> She and Susana held a celebration about keeping transgender people out of
>> women’s sports. Title IX revisions that addressed the issue in an inclusive
>> way were struck from the final version.
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 *Janie*
Janie McGuigan
janiemc07 at gmail.com
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