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Hoffmantowns in Albuquerque | 1949 - 1959
Menaul Blvd at Wyoming Blvd and other locations
There are currently four confirmed Hoffman neighborhoods in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The images shown here are from the subdivision called Hoffmantown. 
Vintage ad for Hoffman Homes in Albuquerque, NM.
The last development, "Hoffman City" of 1959, was planned for 12,000 homes (!) and we have not yet found evidence that these are Haver Homes as we have for the others.
The original plans for this type of affordable housing originated in Phoenix's Manana Vista in 1949, and then were quickly replicated across Phoenix, Albuquerque and Denver through the early 1950s.
Albuquerque newspapers report that thousands of Hoffman homes were built there in the early 1950s. Mossman-Gladden, Dale Bellamah, Edward H. Snow, and Sam Hoffman are widely reported as being the four competing homebuilders in the booming southwestern city at midcentury. By 1954 Hoffman ranked as one of the top three homebuildres nationwide.
These red and buff brick veneer homes were block beneath, but feature more or less the same hallmarks as their cousins in Phoenix's iconic Hoffmantown. The wrap-around corner windows are definitely similar, and have been used in Haver's architecture as far back as 1945.
The window apertures seem to be generally larger than those found in the early Phoenix subdivisions.
The white roll-up garages are similar to those found in the original Phoenix neighborhoods as well. 
Note that the vertical living room window with divided panes is very similar to the divided windows found in Mission Manor, Phoenix.
Communites were master-planned with parks and nearby shopping.