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While most local municipalities have been slow to respond to the dire need for growth in their communities, this summer Governor Kathy Hochul rolled out the next major initiative of the New York Housing Compact—a plan she introduced last year to incentivize the building of 800,000 new homes in New York over the next decade.
Downtown Poughkeepsie New York Times columnist Ezra Klein recently wrote in a February 11 article: “In much of San Francisco, you can’t walk 20 feet without seeing a multicolored sign declaring that Black lives matter, kindness is everything and no human being is illegal. Those signs sit in yards zoned for single families, in communities that organize against efforts to add the new homes that would bring those values closer to reality.” “That quote, unfortunately, can be accurately attributed to too many Hudson Valley commu...