Bernalillo County advances plan to use state funds for 1,700 housing units, asks commissioners to authorize purchases and management agreements

County Manager presented an introduction to a slate of prioritized transitional and affordable housing projects and asked the Board of County Commissioners to authorize the county manager to approve purchase agreements and property-management contracts to move projects forward.

The county manager told commissioners, “what you have before you is an introduction of the administrative resolution for the acquisition and construction of transitional and affordable housing priority projects in Bernalillo County,” and said the packet contains projects that could house approximately 1,700 residents in affordable housing and more than 1,000 in transitional housing.

Why it matters: County staff said the state awarded $110 million this year, and the governor’s office combined that with an additional $40 million of previously unspent funds to create roughly $150 million available for near-term investment. The county manager said the…