Inez in Albuquerque, NM

Inez is a post-war Albuquerque neighborhood in the Northeast Heights, sitting just east of the Uptown commercial center. Sam Hoffman, the builder behind Hoffmantown and the Bellamah Addition, platted the Inez Addition here as the city pushed east, and single-family houses on flat, gridded streets still define it. Inez Park on Wisconsin gives the interior a patch of green, and Inez Science & Technology Magnet School holds down the Pennsylvania edge. Taylor Park lies along Indian School Road on the southern side, and Uptown's stores and offices sit a short drive west.

Sam Hoffman arrived from Phoenix and built at scale in post-war Albuquerque; the Bellamah Addition and Hoffmantown came from the same hand as the Inez Addition. Hoffmantown, his planned tract of affordable middle-class houses near Wyoming and Menaul, opened with a park and a shopping center of its own, and Inez was cut from that same pattern of large additions on what was then the edge of town.

No homeowners association governs the streets here, so there are no dues, no common areas and no architectural review; maintenance rests with individual owners.