This walk-through now lives in the hub. Everything here — the lessons, the record, the actions — is gathered in one place: The Housing Hub →
LEARNING MISSION
The Housing Hub
Everything on this topic
Read the record: $24 million and the ZenniHome — what 34 of 42 said · Candidates side by side: Housing — candidates side by side · Learn the system: Housing 101 · This page: The guided mission
Why this guide matters
A home you cannot get a lease for is a future on hold. Housing decisions hide in leases, waiting lists, and boards — learning the system is how families stop waiting in the dark.
How we’ll know it’s working
Honest, countable signs only: questions submitted · instruments gathering answers · pages read and rated useful · and more people who can explain how these decisions actually get made. Counts publish, dated, on Community Findings.
D · Draft — not verified Not line-checked against the Navajo Nation Code. How we verify →
Data & your voice
Surveys, by subject · the results so far · Where’s the data? — every mission runs on what the community measures.
Why is it so hard to build a home on your own Nation? Homesite leases, waitlists, three different housing agencies, and a $24 million cautionary tale — this Learning Mission walks the whole system. The outcome: a family that knows the sequence, the offices, and the questions.
Step 1 — Learn the system
The foundation
Learning — start here
1. Housing 101 — the homesite lease first, then NHA vs. CHID, and where NAHASDA money flows.
2. Land, Grazing & Homesite Leases 101 — the land step that gates everything.
3. Case Study: ZenniHome — the housing-contracts dispute as a live oversight classroom.
Step 2 — Consult the record
What the candidates say
Community — the Consult stage
Housing is one of the deepest topics in the record: the Housing issue page carries candidate answers — waitlists, modular homes, local builders vs. outside firms — and the comparison page’s Housing topic puts them side by side with private judging tools.
Step 3 — The accountability thread
Housing is where the money questions live: the $24M allocation, the NBOA vetting question, and stalled chapter housing projects. The Fraud, Waste & Abuse Learning Mission is this guide’s sibling — walk both and the housing story reads differently.
Step 4 — Ask and act
Put it to the candidates — and the offices
Official — participation channels
Every candidate profile carries an ask-a-question form — waitlist numbers, homesite-lease streamlining, and veteran set-asides are fair questions. Official housing contacts are in Resources.
Contribute
Your housing experience — how long the lease took, where the process stalled — is knowledge the community needs: share it. Progress lives on My Civic Journey.
Goes with: Why People Stay Sick · Infrastructure
Related
All guides · Accountability · Civic Academy · My Civic Journey
The law behind this guide
A · read in the Navajo Nation Code Annotated unless marked otherwise
- 2 N.N.C. § 223(E) — every contract advertised and competitively bid. § 223(F) — change orders capped at twenty percent.
- 5 N.N.C. § 205(B) — the NBOA requires the bid be advertised, and notice given to certified Navajo businesses.
- § 225 — “access to contracts or papers shall be provided to the public.”
- Title 16 — Land. Not printed in the published Code.
What we found
Eighteen half-built houses. Both laws required the bid be advertised.
How we’ll know it worked
When someone requests the housing contract under § 225 and receives it.