Almost everyone associated with the Santa Fe-area housing market agrees the community faces a significant deficit in the number of homes it needs to meet demand.

But finding a number everyone agrees on is another issue entirely.

A statistic commonly cited by many folks involved with affordable housing and development: The city is 5,000 units short. The figure varies by 1,000 or so units, depending on who’s doing the talking.

“Experts put the city of Santa Fe’s unit deficiency at 5,000-plus — double that number when you consider greater Santa Fe County,” Miles Conway, CEO of the New Mexico Home Builders Association and a former leader of the Santa Fe Area Home Builders Association, wrote in an Oct. 5 column published in The New Mexican .

Conway doubled down on that figure in a re

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