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. More recently, he’s worked as an analyst for the New Mexico House of Representatives’ Rural Development, Land Grants, and Cultural Affairs Committee, as a strategic advisor on housing finance and policy for the City of Albuquerque, and led efforts to raise $4.5 million to build The Cottages at 161 Chama.
Kaedi Sanchez
Policy and Development Associate
Kaedi Sanchez is a Policy and Development Associate at the Center for Housing Economics. The Center for Housing Economics provides technical assistance, project financing expertise, and advocates for good housing policy locally and in the legislature. In her role at the Center, Kaedi is deeply involved in advocacy for affordable housing in New Mexico. Kaedi is a veteran of the United States Navy, where she worked as a JAG Corps paralegal, earning her degree in paralegal studies from Roger Williams University. Her legal work continued when she left the Navy after eight years of honorable service, working as the senior paralegal for a local medical malpractice and wrongful death firm.