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“I felt like being a young person trying to rent was a burden. Everywhere I would go, it was like they didn’t want me there. In my old place they told me I should feel lucky to have this place, even though I didn’t like it. Since the program, they have been able to connect me with a landlord in the program who really cares about my comfort. I love my new place, and I feel like I can talk to my landlord about stuff.
– An at-risk young adult who benefited from a landlord incentive program built with support from Carmichael Consultants
2025 National Conference on Ending Homelessness
Discover how Albuquerque’s Landlord Engagement Program (LEP) is transforming access to
housing for people experiencing unsheltered homelessness. LEP recruits landlords to rent to PSH voucher holders
by offering financial, technical, and social support. It creates strong partnerships between the City, providers,
voucher holders, and landlords. This session explores the program’s development, lessons learned, data-driven
outcomes, and cutting-edge strategies you can implement in your community.
2025 New Mexico Symposium on Health
Why are so many of our patients struggling to find and keep housing? Seniors on fixed incomes, young adults, people with low incomes or poor rental histories, high utilizers, and those with behavioral health challenges are all at-risk of becoming unhoused. These individuals make up a substantial part of those lives covered under risk-on or value-based healthcare provider contracts. Are you aware of the fundamental ways the rental market has changed over the past decade for New Mexicans? Large out-of-state investors are buying up properties, tenant screening algorithms and rental scores are creating new obstacles, and rising fees and strict requirements among other things are making it harder than ever to secure housing. How can healthcare professionals and organizations respond to these challenges? This session highlights innovative programs in New Mexico and across the country that are successfully getting people housed and improving health outcomes.
New Mexico Supportive Housing Strategic Plan 2024 – 2028
Homelessness in New Mexico often looks different than more urban states. New Mexico’s rural areas often have higher rates of hidden homelessness1 making it more difficult for service providers to identify residents’ housing and service needs, and more challenging for residents to access needed services.
Supportive housing programs link special needs populations to safe, affordable, and community-based housing with individualized (and voluntary) support services. Services are designed to help individuals and families remain stably housed, reach self-sufficiency, and live productive lives in their community.
New Mexico Highlands University
Social Work Career Panel 2024
The Social Work Student Success Series presents a Career Panel featuring experienced professionals who will share their journeys, from post-graduation transitions to a typical day in their roles. Panelists offered advice for students, discussed available practicum and job opportunities, and highlighted the importance of clinical supervision. This panel aimed to inspire and equip social work students for successful careers.
2023 New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness (NMCEH) Conference
This conference brings together experts, community leaders, and individuals passionate about making a difference. With two days of presentations, food, discussion, and networking, we will raise our collective consciousness about the state of affordable housing and issues related to homelessness, critical to encouraging a well-coordinated client-first system of services.
Break out section 2: Landlords Hold the Keys! Engaging the Power of Landlords to End Homelessness
(Devin Mandell Kloster, Kristin Carmichael, Kelly Patterson, Anayeli Olivas, Andrew Estocin)
Apartment Association of New Mexico
Albuquerque City is seeking to more meaningfully partner with and encourage landlords and property management professionals to rent to voucher holders, by offering a Landlord Engagement Program. This program will benefit landlords by offering targeted financial guarantees to landlords to enhance landlord’s experiences of renting to voucher households. Landlord Liaisons will assist landlords and property management professionals to more easily navigate the voucher system and use the program’s services. The City of Albuquerque is in its final stages of program development for the Landlord Engagement Program and has included considerable Apartment Association input, as well as input from other housing professionals. This program will begin by covering individuals with a Permanent Supportive Housing voucher in the City of ABQ but hopes to expand to other populations of voucher holders soon.
City of ABQ Landlord Engagement Program Seminar
The City of Albuquerque is in its final stages of program development for the Landlord Engagement Program. It has included considerable Apartment Association input, as well as input from other housing professionals. This program will benefit landlords by offering them targeted financial guarantees to enhance their experiences of renting to voucher households.
CYFD & MFA Join With Landlords To Help Young Adults Facing Homelessness
The Children, Youth & Families Department (CYFD) and the New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority are working to ensure stable housing for young adults, thanks to an innovative program specifically designed to benefit young adults who’ve experienced barriers to housing.
New Mexico Legislative Finance Committee
May Spotlight: Homelessness Supports And Affordable Housing
The Children, Youth & Families Department (CYFD) and the New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority are working to ensure stable housing for young adults, thanks to an innovative program designed to benefit young adults who’ve experienced barriers to housing.
NM Organizations Work With Landlords To Help Ensure Stable Housing For Young Adults
The Children, Youth & Families Department and the New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority are working together to ensure stable housing for young adults. The Landlord Collaboration program incentivizes property owners and managers to lease to older youth and young adults who struggle to secure rental housing.
Program Incentivizes Landlords To Rent Housing To Young Adults At High Risk Of Homelessness
The state Children, Youth and Families Department is teaming up with the New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority in a program offering cash incentives to landlords who agree to provide rentals to young adults at high risk of homelessness. The Landlord Collaboration Program, which aims to boost housing options for people ages 18 to 24, began through a pilot project.
2022 New Mexico Housing Summit
Three-day summit packed with informative workshop sessions, fun-filled networking events, and insightful keynotes at the premier housing event that brings together more than 500 professionals from sectors across the housing spectrum.
New Mexico 2021 Summit on Health Equity
Is hyper-activation your new normal? Presented by Kristin Carmichael. What would it take for public health and advocacy-focused organizations not to burn out their staff during the COVID-19 crisis? How can you as a health worker back off the throttle when so many are suffering? In what subtle and overt ways are employers culpable in pushing workers beyond their limits? How can we not hurt ourselves while trying to help others? Within this session, individuals and organizations will confront these difficult questions and learn how to build resilience and stamina for the road ahead.
Domestic Violence Month: An Interview with Kristin Carmichael
Santa Fe Reporter spent some time interviewing Kristin Carmichael, the domestic violence specialist at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center. Carmichael, the former residential shelter manager at Esperanza Shelter and author of X that Ex: Making a Clean Break When It’s Over, coordinates domestic violence response and treatment at the hospital and its many clinics
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X that Ex : Making a Clean Break When the Relationship is Over
Kristin Carmichael’s 2012 book. X That Ex is the long-awaited answer for women who have left a bad relationship and don’t want to go back. It is incredibly common for women to leave partners who are emotionally unavailable, disrespectful, immature, selfish or even abusive, but then struggle to stay away.
Can abuse feel good? Kristin Carmichael at TEDx ABQ Women
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. In this TEDx presentation Kristin shares her experience as domestic violence expert.
A Hospital-Based Domestic Violence Program Is Crucial To Keeping Women Safe
A compelling account emphasizing the need to address domestic violence as a pivotal women’s health issue and advocates for a comprehensive and compassionate approach to healing and empowerment.