Nuacht Aoir
Growth Coming To Southwest New Mexico
2025
One of the homes planned for new residents at Gila Highland Estates here in Southwest New Mexico. (The photograph was provided courtesy of the National Park Service Natural Resources, January 28, 2016.)
A number of news reports have indicated that the United States of America has a housing crisis – that not enough housing has been built or is being built to accommodate our growing population.
It appears that plans to end this housing crisis in the USA involve innovative efforts here in Southwest New Mexico.
Nuacht Aoir has learned – exclusively – that the proposed Federal budget for 2025-2026 includes funding for the establishment of Gila Highland Estates.
According to one of the documents viewed by Nuacht Aoir, "Gila Highland Estates will re-purpose under-utilized, government-owned land to provide homes for thousands of Americans in need of safe and secure housing."
The plans include transferring the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument from the National Park Service within the U S Department of the Interior to the U S Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
One governmental official – who requested anonymity because they are not allowed to discuss governmental matters with members of the public – indicated that this is but the first land transfer planned to help solve the housing crisis.
Nuacht Aoir has agreed to call this individual "Person Z" to protect their position of trust in our nation's capital.
"I've seen supra-secret plans for the new housing opportunities that are part of next year's budget," said Person Z in an interview earlier today, April 1, 2025. "The plans call for the transfer of many under-utilized lands to HUD."
"The Federal government already owns large portions of the country," Person Z continued. "Why not use land and buildings that are just sitting unused much of the time. Better utilization of these grounds and structures will result in greater government efficiency."
Among other Federal sites destined for new uses include the Valley Forge National Historical Park and the Everglades National Park.
"We envision re-purposing the log cabins at Valley Forge for new housing," explained Person Z. "Architects are working on plans to erect a system of tree houses in the Everglades."
When asked by Nuacht Aoir whether heating will be added to the log cabins in Valley Forge, Person Z commented that "…these log cabins were good enough for our dedicated soldiers who needed housing during a cold winter, then these log cabins will be good enough for Americans today."
Nuacht Aoir also asked whether the new residents in the Everglades would need to be concerned about the alligators that are known to live in that area, Person Z noted that the plans for Everglades Estates deal with that issue head-on.
"That's why the architects have focused on a system of tree houses in the Everglades," said Person Z. "Alligators don't climb trees."
Nuacht Aoir – in its quest to present the full story – asked Person Z how people would be able to get food to eat, for example, if they don't get on the ground on occasion.
Person Z had a ready answer.
"The architects have taken that concern into account," Person Z explained. "Food will come to the new residents. Python snakes are known to reside in the Everglades. These tasty delicacies are able to climb trees. New residents would simply wait for the food to come to them."
As to any concerns that the python snakes might "visit" the tree houses when the new residents are asleep, Person Z referred Nuacht Aoir to a statement from the U S Geological Survey (USGS):
"Human fatalities from non-venomous snakes are very rare, probably averaging one or two per year worldwide. All known constrictor-snake fatalities in the United States are from captive snakes; these are split between deaths of snake owners who were purposefully interacting with their pet and deaths of small children or infants in homes where a snake was kept captive as a pet. There have been no human deaths from wild-living Burmese pythons in Florida. Overall, the risk of attack is very low."
The USGS also indicated "We cannot categorically rule out the possibility of a fatal attack."
Person Z would not provide an answer as to whether any research has been done regarding risks associated with python snakes "visiting" people in their own homes – not as pets, but as intruders.
Instead, Person Z stated "In the event a new resident in Everglade Estates wants to travel outside of the tree house system, they would simply go to one of the secure portals where they could descend to the ground. Of course, they would need to run quickly to a waiting boat to avoid interaction with alligators, python snakes, and other lovable critters that share the neighborhood."
"We believe this would be an excellent way to encourage exercise by Americans," continued Person Z.
When asked why Gila Highland Estates was selected to be the first of these new planned housing developments by HUD, Person Z indicated that people in Southwest New Mexico are a welcoming people.
Plus, the natural resources are abundant here.
"Water could be fetched by new residents from the Gila River and other nearby waterbodies," Person Z said. "Tasty berries and other vegetation abound in the area. In addition, wildlife is abundant in the Gila."
With those comments, Person Z left the interview.
Nuacht Aoir will continue to strive to keep residents of Catron, Grant, Hidalgo, and Luna Counties aware of the plans for Gila Highland Estates.
In the meantime, for further information about Gila Highland Estates, please click here.
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