What is United for Affordable Housing?
A campaign to win permanent funding for affordable housing. Santa Fe needs a permanent funding stream for affordable housing so all of the families who work here can live here.
Permanent Funding for Affordable Housing
This initiative will raise $6 Million in new funding each year for the City’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund.
Santa Fe’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund (AHTF)
An innovative funding mechanism dedicated to funding affordable housing. The AHTF was created by City ordinance in 2005 and is respected as a model for best practice to provide support for affordable housing around the state.
Address Homelessness
The funds raised can be used to increase programs to get the homeless off the streets and into substance abuse, mental health, and transitional housing programs.
Increase Affordable Housing
Generating an estimated $6 million in new funding each year, groups like Santa Fe Habitat for Humanity and other social service organizations will build affordable housing, provide mortgage and rental assistance, and foreclosure prevention.
Paid for by…
A one-time 3% excise tax on the value of homes above $1 million. The tax is applied only to the dollar amount in excess of $1MM.
