TOPIC HUB
Housing
This hub gathers everything on housing: the record, where candidates stand, the lessons that explain it, and the specific problems you can act on.
Learn it
Start here to understand the whole picture.
The full picture on this topic
Read the record: Twenty-four million, and a bed that comes down from the ceiling
Where candidates stand: Housing
Learn the system: Housing 101
Learn the system: Reading the News with the Lenses: the ZenniHome Housing Contracts
Do something
Specific problems on this subject — what each is, and what you can do about it.
Homesite Leases & the Land Barrier
Almost all Navajo land is trust land classified as grazing by default. Building a home first requires moving that land out of grazing — a process involving BIA, the Navajo Land Department, the chapter, and family grazing permit holder…
Navajo Labor & Local Builders
Should homes on the Navajo Nation be built by Navajo workers and Navajo businesses? The NBOA says yes — Navajo-owned businesses get priority on contracts. Candidates across the interviews said the law is not being enforced.
The Housing Waitlist
Thousands of Navajo families are on the Navajo Housing Authority (NHA) waitlist for homes. The waitlist’s length and composition are not publicly published.
The ZenniHome Contracts
22 candidates named the ZenniHome modular home contracts unprompted — the highest unprompted mention of any named topic in the 42 interviews.
Connected
Housing problems trace to the same weaknesses that stall water — funded projects caught in seams, and gray-zone contracts nobody can fully see.
The roadblocks & where they lead
Seams & accountability — how problems stall and who answers. What runs through all of it →
Root causes — funding, capacity, and unclear law underneath. The root problem →