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Like much of the country, New Mexico is dealing with a crunch on affordable housing. Rent in the state has increased 70%, just since 2017, according to the Legislative Finance Committee. Rick Jacobus is an expert on inclusionary housing who works with cities to plan for more equitable options. He spoke recently in Santa Fe and told KUNM’s Megan Myscofski that while many factors go into the lack of lower- and middle-income housing, the underlying problem is we have built a system that’s overly defensive.

Stop me if you've heard this one before: “Developers in my city are only building luxury housing. They're not building anything that ordinary people can afford.” Here are five reasons you might see your local developers primarily building homes that you and your neighbors can't afford.

City Council approves Adeline Corridor plan, kicks off next 2 decades of South Berkeley development The plan aims for 100% affordable housing at Ashby BART, and 50% throughout the corridor Read our live tweets from Tuesday’s City Council meeting about the Adeline Corridor Plan. The Adeline Corridor Specific Plan — a six-year process to address the need for affordable housing and heal the wounds of gentrification in South Berkeley — passed one last checkpoint Tuesday night with near-unanimous approval from the Berkeley City Council. The 120-page document lays out an ambitious vision thro...