The Center for Housing Economics conducts research, communications, and creates projects to support policies and investment in an abundance of housing options for everyone.
The answer to rising housing prices is to allow more housing of all kinds everywhere for people of all levels of income.
Roger Valdez
Director
Roger Valdez was born in Albuquerque and graduated from Manzano High School. He went to college at the University of Puget Sound and graduate school at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Over the last 30 years Roger worked in the Puget Sound region in education, public health, urban planning, and housing. Over the last two years, he’s worked as an analyst for the New Mexico House of Representatives’ Rural Development, Land Grants, and Cultural Affairs Committee and as a strategic advisor on housing finance and policy for the City of Albuquerque.