Rural Municipal Leaders Confirm Housing Affordability Continues to be a Major Issue A joint survey conducted in October 2024 by the New York State Association of Towns and the Rural Housing Coalition of New York reaffirmed that housing affordability continues to be a major issue confronting rural communities throughout the state. The poll of municipal leaders found that 68 percent of respondents believed that housing affordability was a major concern in their towns and villages. Affordable housing is generally defined as housing…
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Michael J. Borges
A new report titled “Rural New Yorkers at Risk,” produced by the Regional Plan Association for the RHC, was released in February and shows that as soon as 2027, hundreds of tenants in rural communities will be subject to displacement each year.…
Letter from Michael J. Borges Housing Crisis Plan Is Needed The 2024-25 Executive Budget fails to address both the affordability and availability of housing in the state and in rural communities. Governor Kathy Hochul’s previous budget proposal at least included ambitious and farsighted initiatives to address the housing crisis. This year the pendulum has swung all the way back, with a lackluster set of programs that mostly address vacant state-owned properties and New York City, while neglecting the rest of…