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Las Cruces Council Work Session - March 9, 2026
The city’s minutes for this meeting were compared, sentence by sentence, against the transcript of the recording. Of 43 statements the minutes attribute to a named person, 43 were found in the recording.
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“resign” is said 1× on the recording and never appears in the minutes
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Rents were generally pretty stable between 2015 and 2020 and the same was with um home prices. They decreased through the financial recession um and then were pretty stable through 2020 and then we see that in both um rents and prices, there was a big jump of about a 50% jump
“surveillance” is said 1× on the recording and never appears in the minutes
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of renters by income as well as a distribution of units that are affordable to them by income. And then the the shortage of the surplus for each of the income levels. So, we can see here that in 2024, there was a rental gap of almost uh 4,500 units in Las Cruces for households
“fine” is said 1× on the recording and never appears in the minutes
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what pressure do you see on on the market? I'm sorry. We're discussing who's best to answer this. Or or both of y'all. Yes, that's fine. [clears throat] In terms of the the seniors' needs, um definitely the grab bars, the cooling systems. Those overlap a lot with disability, and so the incidents of disability
“illegal” is said 1× on the recording and never appears in the minutes
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was 0.25%. Among other things, we have tariffs. Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court ruled that all the tariffs enacted on the IEEPA law were illegal. So, that doesn't cover all the tariffs, but now there's uncertainty if there's going to be refunds or not and if they're going to happen, how is the process
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Rents were generally pretty stable between 2015 and 2020 and the same was with um home prices. They decreased through the financial recession um and then were pretty stable through 2020 and then we see that in both um rents and prices, there was a big jump of about a 50% jump between 2020 and 2023 2022 and then prices begin to moderate again and this trend um we see across the country's not just specific to Las Cruces. And then in terms of vacancies, we see that there was
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going to get into some of the data findings and projected needs. Um thank you. So, in terms of affordability, this um figure here shows what um the average annual wage is in the county for different industries, as well as what can afford what can they afford to rent and to buy, and then how does that compare with what we are seeing in the market in terms of the median or the typical rent and home prices. So, here we can see that at the average wages with
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propose to spend your block grants. Those are the community development block grant and the home investment partnerships program. So, you're required to come to the community and let them know how you intend to spend those dollars, what your vision is over 5 years, and how you propose to spend them the next year. One um specific requirement of the consolidated plan is that it has to meet critical needs. And in terms of critical needs, we often look at that in terms of poverty. I had talked a
~1170 words of the recording have no counterpart in the minutes
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um, kept the federal funds rate at a target between 3.5 and 3.75 in their January meeting. The funds rate funds rate is um a benchmark for all borrowing costs. It has a larger impact over the short term as compared to the long term. On the long term, we have other variables that play a role such as expectations. And their future meeting their next meeting is um next week. If I'm not on March 18th. Uh the future of the rate is data dependent. There is a
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