When SFR meets with residents the week of the flooding, we sit at a slanting, rickety table. Wilder, Santa Fe Poet Laureate Darryl Lorenzo Wellington (an SFR contributor), performer Stephen Jules Rubin and others all cite the noise among their chief concerns. What he describes as “a small minority of residents and their consistent and persistent attempts to poison the well” has been “actually very deeply disappointing.” The complexity of balancing cost, quality, tenants’ wishes and a many-layered management model has led to something “very different from what I envisioned trying to create,” Werwath says. Siler Yard hasn’t gone the way Daniel Werwath-executive director of Inter-Faith Housing and prime mover of Siler Yard-hoped, either. From a rocky beginning, residents have reported extreme noise, problems with management, mold and structural problems. That’s just the most recent in a series of hurdles. 12 by New Mexico Inter-Faith Housing Corp., the nonprofit that owns Siler Yard. “We are currently working with our contractor to complete the drainage system as designed and specified by our architects and engineers,” reads an email sent to residents on Aug. 8, monsoon rains flooded the property’s parking lots, running off from Siler Road and the Acequia Madre, causing sections of asphalt toward the back of the site to buckle. The fits and starts marking Siler Yard’s early days spotlight the wobbly balance between providing a reasonably-priced place to live in a city beset by soaring housing costs and the difficulty in ensuring high-quality living conditions. It’s been held up as a model for an affordable, live-work community-but some residents tell a different story, and it isn’t quite what the community’s creator envisioned.
Martin Heinrich, D-NM, has lauded the development and recently toured Siler Yard, which won an “Innovation Award” at the American Institute of Architects Santa Fe 2019 Design Awards. She and other neighbors have noticed a litany of problems with moisture and noise, and when they’ve gone to management, nothing’s happened.ĭevelopers conceived Siler Yard as an affordable, net-zero-energy, multi-family-unit project for artists and creators who make less than 60% of the Area Mean Income ( just under $34,000 as of this year). Photographer Holly Wilder was overjoyed when she was approved for a first-floor apartment in Siler Yard Arts + Creativity Center, but the high dropped quickly to a deep low.
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