Local resources
Dutchess County Housing Needs Assessment (March 2022)
Room Enough for Both: Building Affordable Housing and Preserving Open Space in the Hudson Valley a 2023 conference organized by Mohonk Consultations and the Hudson Valley Alliance for Housing and Conservation. It is available here in eight parts, including Ulster County Smart Housing Communities Program, Affordable Housing and Land Use, Emerging Strategies and Solutions, Rural Workforce Housing Solutions, and Building Public Support.
Hudson River Housing develops and preserves quality affordable housing and helps families and individuals obtain and maintain housing through education, advocacy and support services.
Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress is, hands-down, the best source of information on housing in our area. In addition to quarterly regional housing market reports and annual analyses of the disconnect between wages and rents (Out of Reach, 2024), Pattern publishes reports like these:
- Money Migration: Incomes, Migration, and Gentrification in the Hudson Valley during the Covid-19 Pandemic (2024)
- Moving In, Moving Out (2024) explores how wealthy newcomers contribute to the out migration of the middle and working class, exerting stress on our regional workforce.
- Overcoming Barriers to Affordable Homeownership in the Hudson Valley and Beyond (2023)
- 49 “Local Option” Exemptions that Can Help More People Afford Homeownership (2023)
A sample of national resources
Articles & podcasts
A $1.7 Million Toilet and Liberalism’s Failure to Build, Ezra Klein Show, Jerusalem Demsas, April 16, 2024
America’s Affordable Housing Crisis, Conor Dougherty, The New York Times, March 27, 2024
No Place for Home, Molly Brady, Harvard Law Today, February 2024
The Obvious Answer to Homelessness – The Atlantic, December 2023
Books
Homelessness is a housing problem: how structural factors explain U.S. patterns, Gregg Colburn & Clayton Page Aldern (2023)
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World, Henry Graber (2023)
Poverty, by America, Matthew Desmond (2023)
Groups
National Low Income Housing Coalition has a Housing Research Repository with research studies and reports on topics related to affordable housing.
Strong Towns is a network of citizen groups. Their website features content on housing, transportation, community building, etc., plus workshops, online learning, books and more.
