Business View Civil and Municipal | September 2022

111 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 9 Santa Fe, New Mexico ‘ The City Different ’ A lexandra Ladd moved around a lot as a child, never quite finding a place she could call home. She attended five different elementary schools before her family settled down in Santa Fe, New Mexico. “When we arrived in Santa Fe, I remember the blue sky and the sun was shining,” the Director of the Santa Fe Office of Affordable Housing recalls. “It was so fun to run around in the hills as a little kid. I just remember thinking ‘Oh, I’m home. I never want to live anywhere else.’ And I never lost that feeling. I went to high school and college on the east coast where my mom came from and I was like ‘no, it’s got to be New