Gubernatorial candidate, Deb Haaland

From the campaign of Deb Haaland:

ALBUQUERQUE — Deb Haaland, the democratic nominee for governor in New Mexico, understands the struggle to access affordable housing options. To address the housing shortage, renters need protections from corporate landlords and Wall Street shouldn’t own our state’s Main Streets. 

Haaland believes that New Mexicans deserve a safe and healthy place to live that doesn’t make them choose between paying the rent or putting food on the table.

That’s why she will fight to:

• Ban rent fixing—protect renters from corporate landlords by making it illegal to set rent prices artificially high with AI algorithms and collusion.
• Add resources to the Attorney General’s office to enforce tenant rights and go after predatory practices.
• Require a Renter’s Bill of Rights that plainly outlines rental application requirements, fees and costs, and rental property registration.
• Stop Wall Street from buying up New Mexico’s housing.
• Address worker and housing shortages in rural communities by using state-owned assets to expand housing for state employees and provide housing to workers filling job shortages.
• Protect New Mexicans in manufactured home communities.
• Build more housing more efficiently by requiring applications for housing projects be approved within a certain time period and cutting the red tape.
• Lower the cost of building by making properties “site ready” and reducing the GRT on construction materials to build housing.

In Congress, Haaland stood up for the rights of military families to have safe housing and tenant rights. Haaland’s affordability agenda focuses on putting a stop to corporate landlords taking advantage of New Mexicans. Haaland’s plan works to make it easier to build more housing and revamps laws and zoning that make it harder to keep New Mexicans housed.