An influx of workers at Los Alamos National Laboratory is exacerbating an affordable housing problem Santa Fe shares with many communities across America.

Already, Santa Fe's housing market can't accommodate all the thousands of state government employees who work here. Many, if not most, commute.

Add to that a growing workforce at LANL that Los Alamos County can't accommodate.

“The labs are creating a lot of new jobs and not building enough new housing to absorb them,” said Daniel Werwath, former housing policy adviser to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and the former executive director of two nonprofit organizations — New Mexico Inter-Faith Housing and The Housing Trust.

“They are very high-paying jobs people are coming into — in some cases $300,000 or $400,000 — and there’s nothing to b

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