Earlier this month, the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust (HIT) was joined by U.A. Local 412 in hosting the New Mexico Development Community Roundtable to explore housing investment opportunities in the state while expanding union career opportunities. Participants included union, elected and agency officials from throughout New Mexico, as well as several of the state’s affordable and market rate housing developers.

The HIT’s efforts in New Mexico are the latest example of the fund demonstrating the role pension capital has in a solution to the housing crisis. By leveraging pension fund capital, the HIT can help spur economic, housing and workforce development.

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