Upcoming Meetings
All Town Board Meetings take place at Rhinebeck Town Hall at 6pm. For more information, visit the Town of Rhinebeck’s website.
Along with data related specifically to Rhinebeck’s Locust Hill proposal, we are also providing citations to a small, curated selection of materials that relate to affordable housing more generally. The array of available materials on the subject is vast, however, and we encourage you to explore research articles and studies about the topic of affordable housing from reputable sources including universities, non-profits, and research centers.
Copies of any articles that are behind a paywall can be made available upon request in person at the library.
RESOURCES
April 2024 Affordable Housing Series
- Demographics, housing and other drivers of the future: A presentation to the Rhinebeck Community by Adam Bosch, CEO of Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress
- Environmental, Zoning, and Market Forces: Concerns and Opportunities by Steve Rosenberg, Co-convener, Hudson Valley Alliance for Housing & Conservation; Former Sr. VP. Scenic Hudson / ED. Scenic Hudson Land Trust
- Town of Rhinebeck Workforce Housing by Jonathan Mensch, Chair, Workforce Housing Committee, Town of Rhinebeck
- Tools Towards More Affordable Housing by Deirdre Burns, Chair, Village of Rhinebeck Comprehensive Plan Subcommittee on Housing, five-term member of the Rhinebeck Board of Education & trained mediator
- How Rhinebeck Has Historically Addressed the Needs of an Economically Diverse Community During Periods of Profound Change by Bill Jeffway, Executive Director, Dutchess County Historical Society
- Housing and the Workforce Connection by Nancy Sheehan, Executive Director of the Rhinebeck Chamber of Commerce
- On Hudson River Housing, Inc. by Christa Hines, Executive Director, Hudson River Housing, Inc.
Videos, Podcasts, and Talks
- Room Enough for Both: Building Affordable Housing and Preserving Open Space in the Hudson Valley at the 2023 Mohonk Conference
- Jerusalem Demsas on The Ezra Klein Show – April 16, 2024
Town and Village Resources
- Village of Rhinebeck Comprehensive Plan, April 2024
- Village of Rhinebeck Comprehensive Plan website
- All documents related to the proposed Locust Hill project on Town of Rhinebeck website including new documents as of 5/28/24.
- Locust Hill brochure, Town of Rhinebeck Workforce Housing Committee
- Report on Rhinebeck Village Kitchen Table Conversations, 2022
Articles and Publications
Local Coverage and Local Concerns
- Complete List of Affordable Housing articles in the Hudson Valley Pilot
- Regulation of STRs and Locust Hill Moving Forward in the Red Hook Daily Catch
- Rhinebeck and Red Hook Community Needs Assessment – Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress, 2023
- Regional Housing Market Report – Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress, 2022
- Dutchess County Housing Needs Assessment, March 2022
- Town of Rhinebeck Housing Needs Assessment, December 2016
- Out of Reach: Center for Housing Solutions and Community Initiatives & Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress, 2023
- Notes on meeting from the Housing Subcommittee, Civic Engagement & Values Subcommittee, Village of Rhinebeck, October 2, 2022
- Overcoming Barriers to Affordable Home Ownership in the Hudson Valley and Beyond – Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress
National Focus / Innovative Solutions
- No Place for Home by Molly Brady, Harvard Law Today
- America’s Affordable Housing Crisis by Conor Dougherty, The New York Times, March 27, 2024
- Jerusalem Demsas on Problems in the US Housing Market and How to Fix Them | Mercatus Center
- Innovative Solutions to the Housing Crisis by Abby Ivory & Kent W. Colton, Stanford Social Innovation Review, December 2020
- Housing Research Repository
- The Obvious Answer to Homelessness – The Atlantic, December 2023
- Why Housing Breaks People’s Brains – The Atlantic, Nov 23, 2022
- The housing theory of everything in Works in Progress, September 14, 2021
- Colorado’s Ingenious Idea for Solving the Housing Crisis – The Atlantic, July-August 2023
- Strong Towns – Network of citizen groups in mostly US cities/towns/villages. They have a lot of content on housing, transportation, community building, etc., plus workshops, online learning, books and an annual conference.
BOOKS
Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors explain U.S. patterns by Gregg Colburn
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Graber
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city by Matthew Desmond
The color of law : a forgotten history of how our government segregated America by Richard Rothstein