About Us

OUR name

StreetVision Housing Strategies, formerly East Central Ministries, has 26 years of work and experience making positive impacts in Albuquerque’s International District (ID) community.

Our new name, StreetVision, reflects our perspective and work. With strategies developed for effective solutions, we are building housing in the margins of our community.

OUR MISSION

To develop innovative housing and land use strategies through neighborhood partnerships that elevate local voices and respond to emerging opportunities within the greater International District of Albuquerque.

OUR NEIGHBORHOOD

The international district (ID) is the most culturally diverse community in Albuquerque AND it has the greatest concentration of housing insecurity, disenfranchisement, drugs, crime, mental illness, and suffering.

The ID has endured systemic racism, the outside ownership of land and housing, and the persistent loss of businesses and jobs. In recent years grocery and pharmacy chains, box stores and many beloved locally-owned eateries and minority-owned small businesses have closed. Properties in the ID are being purchased by developers from outside the neighborhood, state, and even outside the country, for investments.

These respective forces are putting unbearable pressures on our neighbors, making it harder to live, work and thrive here. We are HERE with them, for them.

OUR HISTORY

Streetvision is a newly envisioned organization with deep, enduring roots. Originally founded in 1999 as East Central Ministries, our work began in Albuquerque’s International District, partnering with the community to build trust and deliver programs that responded directly to the voices of its most vulnerable residents.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the HOUSING CRISIS in the International District - driven by rising costs and limited availability - emerged as the most pressing issue facing our neighborhood. In response, our organization underwent a strategic transformation, narrowing its focus and adopting a more agile model centered on housing innovation. This shift began in early 2024 with coordinated efforts to raise awareness and build partnerships with local and state leaders. This year, the evolution was formalized with the rebranding of East Central Ministries as Streevision, reflecting our commitment to bold, community rooted solutions for today’s housing challenges.

Streetvision began with a simple idea: real change starts by listening to people and responding with action.
In 1999, while working in construction, founder John Bulten felt called to serve the community. He moved to Albuquerque’s International District and started working to support the residents’ basic needs for food, clothing, and connection.
Over the next two decades, the organization launched programs that supported the neighborhood:
- A food co-op and youth programs
- An urban farm, community gardens, and developing greenspaces
- A neighborhood medical and dental clinic
- Job-creating small businesses in the area
- A thrift store
- Case-management
In 2008, we stepped into affordable housing by starting Casa Shalom Cooperative Housing. A project converting 20 apartments and 2 houses into stable homes for 13 families that incorporated affordable home payments while building financial equity.
We’ve always been rooted in the community, building trust and forging partnerships that create opportunity. Over time, we realized that giving and empowering alone weren’t enough - we needed long-term solutions to the growing housing crisis in our neighborhood.
So we refocused. In 2025, we launched Streetvision to reflect our new mission: tackling housing instability with practical solutions.
Today, we’re leading efforts in the International District to create faster, more affordable housing models. We’re using our experience on the ground to design systems that work, because everyone deserves a place to call home.