Planning for ABQ's Future: How to Make Land Use Policies Work for All

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Thu Jun 11 2026 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

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National Hispanic Cultural Center: Bank of America Theater | Albuquerque, NM

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Journalist and housing policy expert Jerusalem Demsas explores how cities like Albuquerque can reform zoning to expand housing supply.
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The Homewise Livability Speaker Series, launched in 2023, is a community education program that features local and national experts discussing how housing markets become unaffordable and exploring strategies to manage development for greater affordability, sustainability, and livability. Our 2026 Albuquerque series will take place monthly from March through June.


Childcare and interpretation will be provided. When reserving your ticket, please indicate if you need childcare or interpretation. This is a free, ticketed event that we anticipate will sell out, so we encourage you to get your ticket today!


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Jerusalem Demsas, journalist, author, and leading voice on housing policy, will explore how communities like Albuquerque can strengthen planning and zoning approaches to increase housing supply while balancing neighborhood character, equity, and long-term economic health. As Albuquerque continues to grapple with infill development, housing shortages, and growth along key corridors, she will share models of successful reform. She will also highlight the tradeoffs cities face when local process, preservation, and participation intersect with the need to build more housing. This session will offer insights into how Albuquerque can better respond to housing pressures and manage change. Demsas is currently Editor-in-Chief of The Argument and formerly a staff writer at The Atlantic.


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Jerusalem Demsas is a journalist, author, and expert commentator on housing policy, urban equity, and public policy. She currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of The Argument and previously as staff writer at The Atlantic, where she created and hosted the policy podcast Good on Paper and wrote extensively about issues such as citizen voice, federalism, labor economics, NIMBY-ism, gentrification, race, gender, and exclusionary politics.

Demsas is the author of On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, and Democracy, an anthology examining how institutional and political barriers have shaped the housing crisis in the United States. She has also written for Vox, where she covered policy as a journalist and co-hosted the podcast The Weeds.


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La Serie de Oradores sobre Habitabilidad de Homewise es un programa de educación comunitaria creado en 2023 que presenta oradores locales y nacionales que ayudan a los residentes a aprender cómo los mercados inmobiliarios se vuelven inasequibles y formas de gestionar los patrones de desarrollo para aumentar la asequibilidad, la sostenibilidad y la habitabilidad. Nuestra serie 2026 se llevará a cabo una vez al mes de marzo a junio.


Se proporcionará cuidado de niños e interpretación. Al reservar su boleto, indique si necesita cuidado de niños o interpretación. Este es un evento gratuito con entrada que anticipamos que se agotará, por lo que te animamos a que consigas tu entrada hoy.


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Jerusalem Demsas, periodista, autora y voz destacada en política de vivienda, explorará cómo comunidades como Albuquerque pueden fortalecer sus enfoques de planeación y zonificación para aumentar la oferta de vivienda, al mismo tiempo que equilibran el carácter de los vecindarios, la equidad y la salud económica a largo plazo. A medida que Albuquerque continúa enfrentando el desarrollo de relleno urbano, la escasez de vivienda y el crecimiento a lo largo de corredores clave compartirá modelos de reformas exitosas. También destacará lascompensaciones y tensiones que enfrentan las ciudades cuando los procesos locales, la preservación y la participación comunitaria se cruzan con la necesidad de construir más vivienda. Esta sesión ofrecerá perspectivas sobre cómo Albuquerque puede responder mejor a las presiones de vivienda y gestionar el cambio. Actualmente, Demsas es editora en jefe de The Argument y anteriormente fue redactora en The Atlantic.


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Jerusalem Demsas es periodista, autora y comentarista experta en política de vivienda, equidad urbana y políticas públicas. Actualmente se desempeña como editora en jefe de The Argument y anteriormente fue redactora en The Atlantic, donde creó y condujo el pódcast de política Good on Paper y escribió extensamente sobre temas como la participación ciudadana, el federalismo, la economía laboral, el fenómeno NIMBY, la gentrificación, la raza, el género y las políticas de exclusión.

Demsas es autora de On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, and Democracy, una antología que examina cómo las barreras institucionales y políticas han dado forma a la crisis de la vivienda en los Estados Unidos. También ha escrito para Vox, donde cubrió temas de política pública como periodista y fue copresentadora del pódcast The Weeds.

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National Hispanic Cultural Center: Bank of America Theater, 1701 4th Street Southwest, Albuquerque, United States

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