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NMiF discusses housing as a human right amid financial crisis during pandemic January 07, 2021
The COVID pandemic has thrown many people into financial crisis and has spotlighted how important adequate shelter is to health. This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Megan Kamerick talks to law professor and housing advocate Serge Martinez about housing as a human right and how to stem the flood of evictions once the moratorium is lifted.
This month’s installment of Our Land looks back to an early 2020 conversation between correspondent Laura Paskus and Eugene Herrera, former governor of the Pueblo of Cochiti. Now, in 2021, Sen. Martin Heinrich’s plans to reintroduce a bill to change Bandelier National Monument into Bandelier National Park. While other northern New Mexico Pueblos support the measure, leaders at Cochiti still oppose it. Former governor Herrera tells why the people of Cochiti believe such a designation would damage spirit
Created: December 18, 2020 09:25 PM
Jake Garrison, a local real estate attorney, said the state s eviction moratorium has created a tough situation for both tenants and landlords. The whole pandemic has affected landlords and tenants, and there s really no party that s not affected by this. Everybody is suffering,” he said.
Garrison said people need a place to live. Meanwhile, landlords need the income to support their families. In New Mexico, I have found, in my practice, certainly there are landlords who are owners of large apartment complexes that are owned by banks or conglomerates, but the majority of landlords, especially in Albuquerque, appear to be sort of mom-and-pop situations where perhaps they own an investment property, or it s their first home they renovated and now they re using the property for income or supplemental retirement income,” Garrison said.
NMiF discusses missing and murdered Indigenous women December 17, 2020
Of the nearly 6,000 missing and murdered Indigenous women reported each year in the U.S., many are never identified. This is due in part to an outdated database. Correspondent Gwyneth Doland talks to UNM professor Heather Edgar, who has been working with Native tribes and experts to find a respectful, high-tech solution.
Wildlife experts believe there were many factors that caused a massive die-off of birds migrating through New Mexico early this autumn. Correspondent Laura Paskus talks with NMSU professor Martha Desmond about why the bird carcasses were severely emaciated and what that might mean for the future.