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Recent mentions
- 2026-09-29Common CouncilRegular Meeting of the Common Council 9/29/26 Pt. 112 passages longer discussion8:02and an apartment for a supervisor to be on site 24 hours a day. What the suppression from a mapping exercise found is that we need emergency housing that the hotels and hotels that the county uses are just frankly disaster. And I used to be a bond agent for the public bail fund where the husband started and I would bail out people before bail reform and I would take them to …
- 2026-09-29Common CouncilRegular Meeting of the Common Council 9/29/26 Pt. 23 passages longer discussion7:47… litigation that's already going to decide whether it is park lender. the city went into an agreement with a developer saying that we want affordable housing there. Sure, we were misinformed. Um, things were
- 2026-09-28Other / CommitteeBoard of Estimate and Apportionment Clerk, Council, RMO, Animal Control 9/28/261 passage1:09:53… have to use their personal phones for anything. Part of the problem that we had is when one of those um inspectors left, uh we still had landlords and whatnot calling this guy's personal cell phone and trying to relay messages between us and all of that stuff. So, um my think field work is, you know, I don't mind using my personal phone. I get with your point. I have always …
- 10:49We um Sarah Black and I had looked at um Chris Shell's hours, her hours spent on housing trust fund stuff and audit costs. And then we looked at like the auditor's hours and we broke that all down to what we thought was a fair representation of time spent on the housing trust fund. And then that's how we came up with those numbers. So I mean how much of this audit this Pepsi? …
- 1:03:35Uh until December of last year, we had a fair housing officer listed. Uh Theresa Joiner was our fair housing officer. She was not reappointed and first resolution simply appoints Michelle Tulos as our fair housing officer. Um the second resolution uh there is a requirement that we have a policy first of all that we have an equal opportunity uh equal employment opportunity …
- 10:33People can't find but we heard Reef saying that he can't find a he's got a good salary for a teller, a full-time teller, and he can't find anyone. So maybe there's a workforce issue, but then we could just blame it on housing, too. Same thing we talk about every question.
- 2026-09-17CEDC (Columbia Economic Development Corp.)CEDC Governance and Nominating Committee Meeting 9/17/269 passages longer discussion30:43And there's just feels like there's a ton of potential, but then there's also um the housing issue. Um I personally for me like uh sustainability and climate stuff. There's some amazing projects going on that inspire me, but also like that is a big issue. Um, and then also I don't know this area like it's it's an aging population and um how do we like that's the same with the …
- 13:19… the doors or windows, you know, things that can't be readily disengaged from each. Basically, if it's a bolt or a chain inside your apartment, you know, they can those things would all be fine. But if it's something that is, you know, you need a key from the outside to do it or tools or whatever, I just thought a description that you can demonstrate as opposed to referencing …
- 2026-09-16Housing AuthorityHudson Housing Authority Board of Commissioners 9/16/2621 passages longer discussion40:38program where is the Hudson Housing Authority HJ administers the housing choice voucher HCG program under the US department of housing and urban development and whereas HUD measures the performance of public housing authorities PHA to en uh to ensure that authorities operate the program as prescribed by statuses and regulations and whereas the CNAP performance Indicators …
- 2026-09-16County Government CommitteeCounty Govt || Public Works || September 16, 202614 passages longer discussion5:48Um they are he's going to go back into his same unit eventually, but it will be a projectbased voucher rather than a housing choice voucher. Projectbased vouchers, you may know, go with the unit, not with the uh not with the individual. But uh nevertheless, he has to apply uh uh and has and has applied to section 8 to prove his need for the assistance for the projectbased …
- 2026-09-15County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || September 15, 202616 passages longer discussion1:03:10Sure. So, we thought about that. You know, we we we understood that the the goal is to solve this issue. Um, all the apartments will have roughings for kitchens so that we will be able to put five foot kitchens inside each apartment. Um so that in the event that we have that we have to uh transition transition it to long-term apartments all the departmentations basically all …
- 16:39… or they own that building for example that's another so they're they're actually I I think probably one of the uh most unknown uh good landlords in the town. So no, it looks like they're serious on investing. So yeah. So thanks. Very good.
- 2:14Um we are losing I'm I got to bring it up. I mean, it's the talk talk of the city uh with the housing crisis. We're losing one of our top five responders in the uh city of Hudson Fire Department is moving away being forced out. Can't afford it, moving on. Has to move out of town. I'm actually moving out of state.
- 8:27All right. Columbia County proclamation recognizing the Oxford House of Columbia County. Whereas Oxford House is a community-based peerup supported network that provides individuals in recovery from substance use disorders with safe, stable, and supportive housing. And whereas the Oxford House of Columbia provides a vital resource for individuals seeking to maintain their …
- 5:18like there could be like a one app for affordable like for you know housing, but I also know that's difficult for a lot of reasons and I know like places have housing navigators and we don't have like unless you have a case worker it's like you're just spend your day calling and emailing ing all these different places to get information. So, I'm wondering if you guys have any …
- 1:18:31It's not that they're not important, they're just not in our uh land, so to speak. uh issues like uh well HHA's financing model or tenant eligibility or HHA management or the broader questions of housing uh affordable housing policy and placement those are those are the domain of other folks. So, it's not that we don't care about that. And as individual citizens, we may have …
- 10:48… addressing the relocation existing HHA residents or sequence involving redevelopment of some portion of the existing Bliss Tires Columbia apartment property before full development of site B? If so, summarized alternatives. Um
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- 33:13can't rent that apartment this then turns it the other way around says we're gonna accept Section 8 because you now then are not eligible for good even though the apartment might be but you then by receiving are not eligible to be in good cause eviction because you're receiving so I I I I see this as somehow another man loophole in one regard you have a com what what you're …
- 21:41of affordable housing and i say preservation very purposefully because um the existing housing stock affordable housing stock in all of our communities that's the starting place we have to work to make sure that that remains viable while we're also developing new affordable housing because the need is just insatiable i have not gone into any community that hasn't needed more …
- 1:13:50… you know what i mean 100 and so at this point does this look good to everyone senior housing family housing you know key worker housing workforce housing um and then you know housing with a mix of residential and commercial units would be like you know a store that someone's living over basically i also wanna i i think it looks good and i had a question um and i think it's …
- 6:16is and just a little background about my firm um we uh specialize in affordable housing uh around the United States and in fact uh this year we won the New York State affordable housing uh best project award for project El borin Quin we did in the Bronx uh and we also won a national AIA award for that as well and then since I presented uh the project a few months ago uh I …
- 6:30and resources to make a better program decisions and engage more landlords in the housing Choice voucher program to see a list of resources they provide away I strongly urge encourage your agency to make use of these resources to improve your program management and reduce the risks that it will receive uh future funding offsets as executive director for Hudson Housing …
- 1:50:45that line item that 171 000 is what we're talking about we're now using for the seven apartments that money has not been used that money is still sitting there as of december 2020 we have 17 000 allocated for property betterments and addition that is waiting to be allocated for property betterments in addition we probably won't use all that we'll only be using a portion of …
- 2026-04-23Other / CommitteeCOLUMBIA COUNTY FAIR HOUSING PUBLIC FORUM 202666 passages longer discussion14:05… uh in other like in other counties. I but basically if you or somebody you can't afford to hire a lawyer on their um, uh and is we defend evictions. That's 90% of their uh Section 8 voucher terminated, at and possibly handle. Um, cuz we do paralegals that that that can do that denied assistance like DSS, that's pretty much any um kind of issue. And and then with an eviction …
- 1:08:38Department of Housing and urban develop urban development, affordable housing is housing where occupants pay no more than 30% of their gross income for housing costs, including utilities. However, this general guideline does not specify income thresholds or unit allocations, which can vary significantly. People in the community should be aware that affordable housing is not …
- 41:54… all the way to present day through the pandemic hud has really stepped up as a counter counter cyclical lender and has stepped up in the affordable housing arena to really provide um affordable housing for or money for not only just affordable housing projects like this one but also for market rate housing and year after year
- 48:25i'm sorry would section 8 applicants be denied absolutely not um you know if you look at galvin's track record we accept more section 8 housing choice voucher tenants than any other landlord in the city of hudson so we welcome people with section 8 we'll be pursuing eight project-based section 8 vouchers and anyone who has a section 8 voucher will be eligible for any of these …
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- 10:06… delved into the details of the project. We needed to understand how the pilot would affect the city's finances. We also understand that affordable housing projects seldom get built without pilots. We also understand that affordable housing projects are often inconsistent with others in the Hudson Valley. But many questions remained as you may have heard in the informal meeting …
- 3:22:03… would make this available to the community as well in those kinds of emergency situations. Okay. So you're saying that this is going to be apartments and not rooms? No, it's their room. It's not apartments. They're just four. They will not have a kitchen. So there are four single rooms, and then there is a kitchen for the, and you'll see it when you get the plans.
- 2026-09-29Common CouncilRegular Meeting of the Common Council 9/29/26 Pt. 112 passages longer discussion8:02and an apartment for a supervisor to be on site 24 hours a day. What the suppression from a mapping exercise found is that we need emergency housing that the hotels and hotels that the county uses are just frankly disaster. And I used to be a bond agent for the public bail fund where the husband started and I would bail out people before bail reform and I would take them to …
- 2026-09-29Common CouncilRegular Meeting of the Common Council 9/29/26 Pt. 23 passages longer discussion7:47… litigation that's already going to decide whether it is park lender. the city went into an agreement with a developer saying that we want affordable housing there. Sure, we were misinformed. Um, things were
- 2026-09-28Other / CommitteeBoard of Estimate and Apportionment Clerk, Council, RMO, Animal Control 9/28/261 passage1:09:53… have to use their personal phones for anything. Part of the problem that we had is when one of those um inspectors left, uh we still had landlords and whatnot calling this guy's personal cell phone and trying to relay messages between us and all of that stuff. So, um my think field work is, you know, I don't mind using my personal phone. I get with your point. I have always …
- 10:49We um Sarah Black and I had looked at um Chris Shell's hours, her hours spent on housing trust fund stuff and audit costs. And then we looked at like the auditor's hours and we broke that all down to what we thought was a fair representation of time spent on the housing trust fund. And then that's how we came up with those numbers. So I mean how much of this audit this Pepsi? …
- 1:03:35Uh until December of last year, we had a fair housing officer listed. Uh Theresa Joiner was our fair housing officer. She was not reappointed and first resolution simply appoints Michelle Tulos as our fair housing officer. Um the second resolution uh there is a requirement that we have a policy first of all that we have an equal opportunity uh equal employment opportunity …
- 10:33People can't find but we heard Reef saying that he can't find a he's got a good salary for a teller, a full-time teller, and he can't find anyone. So maybe there's a workforce issue, but then we could just blame it on housing, too. Same thing we talk about every question.
- 2026-09-17CEDC (Columbia Economic Development Corp.)CEDC Governance and Nominating Committee Meeting 9/17/269 passages longer discussion30:43And there's just feels like there's a ton of potential, but then there's also um the housing issue. Um I personally for me like uh sustainability and climate stuff. There's some amazing projects going on that inspire me, but also like that is a big issue. Um, and then also I don't know this area like it's it's an aging population and um how do we like that's the same with the …
- 13:19… the doors or windows, you know, things that can't be readily disengaged from each. Basically, if it's a bolt or a chain inside your apartment, you know, they can those things would all be fine. But if it's something that is, you know, you need a key from the outside to do it or tools or whatever, I just thought a description that you can demonstrate as opposed to referencing …
- 2026-09-16Housing AuthorityHudson Housing Authority Board of Commissioners 9/16/2621 passages longer discussion40:38program where is the Hudson Housing Authority HJ administers the housing choice voucher HCG program under the US department of housing and urban development and whereas HUD measures the performance of public housing authorities PHA to en uh to ensure that authorities operate the program as prescribed by statuses and regulations and whereas the CNAP performance Indicators …
- 2026-09-16County Government CommitteeCounty Govt || Public Works || September 16, 202614 passages longer discussion5:48Um they are he's going to go back into his same unit eventually, but it will be a projectbased voucher rather than a housing choice voucher. Projectbased vouchers, you may know, go with the unit, not with the uh not with the individual. But uh nevertheless, he has to apply uh uh and has and has applied to section 8 to prove his need for the assistance for the projectbased …
- 2026-09-15County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || September 15, 202616 passages longer discussion1:03:10Sure. So, we thought about that. You know, we we we understood that the the goal is to solve this issue. Um, all the apartments will have roughings for kitchens so that we will be able to put five foot kitchens inside each apartment. Um so that in the event that we have that we have to uh transition transition it to long-term apartments all the departmentations basically all …
- 16:39… or they own that building for example that's another so they're they're actually I I think probably one of the uh most unknown uh good landlords in the town. So no, it looks like they're serious on investing. So yeah. So thanks. Very good.
- 2:14Um we are losing I'm I got to bring it up. I mean, it's the talk talk of the city uh with the housing crisis. We're losing one of our top five responders in the uh city of Hudson Fire Department is moving away being forced out. Can't afford it, moving on. Has to move out of town. I'm actually moving out of state.
- 8:27All right. Columbia County proclamation recognizing the Oxford House of Columbia County. Whereas Oxford House is a community-based peerup supported network that provides individuals in recovery from substance use disorders with safe, stable, and supportive housing. And whereas the Oxford House of Columbia provides a vital resource for individuals seeking to maintain their …
- 5:18like there could be like a one app for affordable like for you know housing, but I also know that's difficult for a lot of reasons and I know like places have housing navigators and we don't have like unless you have a case worker it's like you're just spend your day calling and emailing ing all these different places to get information. So, I'm wondering if you guys have any …
- 1:18:31It's not that they're not important, they're just not in our uh land, so to speak. uh issues like uh well HHA's financing model or tenant eligibility or HHA management or the broader questions of housing uh affordable housing policy and placement those are those are the domain of other folks. So, it's not that we don't care about that. And as individual citizens, we may have …
- 10:48… addressing the relocation existing HHA residents or sequence involving redevelopment of some portion of the existing Bliss Tires Columbia apartment property before full development of site B? If so, summarized alternatives. Um
- 6:24So, if we took out 75, that would put us at um 85 uh, in the housing trust fund budget, which sufficiently covers those uh two, Q3 and Q4.
- 2026-08-26County Finance CommitteeTobacco Securitization || Finance || August 26, 2026 HD 720p4 passages longer discussion9:23Resolution number 18, authorization for DSS to execute a memorandum of understanding with the Affordable Housing Partnership of the Capital Region. We have a motion and a second. All in favor?
- 29:28Um my next resolution is uh authorizing 2026 budget transfer acceptance of increased CBBG uh housing rehab funds. We got the fun shell as an additional 40,000 that can be used to have some additional home. Can I have a motion in the second motion for Jason?
- 2026-08-25CEDC (Columbia Economic Development Corp.)CEDC Full Board Meeting 8/25/265 passages longer discussion9:53geology from Binghamton and a graduate degree from University of Maryland in community and housing development and planning. So she's worked for a couple of years at a private consulting firm called BAE which is a big consulting firm that does a lot of things that we do in house here for example working with developers to quantify the community benefits things like this. So …
- 2026-08-25HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 8/25/2026 Board of Education Meeting1 passage11:24Uh something that came up was talking about the the rental policy. They they'd like to have the rental for school um facilities to be reviewed and updated potentially. The last revision of this was on um June of 2020. So that you know there's some concern about low rates and um take they'd like to take a look at that in the facilities and then pass that along to policy as as …
- 48:35Yeah. the design process, the design review process uh through region 8 down in Pipsy is really um talks about fasttracking housing in order to make affordable housing and all these things which is where we need to look. You know,
- 2026-08-18County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || Public Safety || August 18, 20261 passage51:16some of the other counties have talked about maybe setting up some type of um, uh, like I guess vouchering system is the only way I could really think to describe it where the county oh the AAA is acting as the booklets and they are paying the farmers markets directly for whatever would be available through those booklets once the booklets run out and that's the part where I …
- 26:25Right, but they they never The whole spirit of selecting Kearney as the developer was under this scattered site housing development
- 31:52Thank you, supervisor. Any other comments? Okay, with that, I think we do have some board appointments. I'm going to appoint Layla Catlin, Joyce Thompson to the Columbia County Housing Task Force. And not as a board appointment, but actually we just passed the resolution. I want to congratulate Mark Chmiel, who is our newest uh representative to the Columbia Greene College …
- 2026-08-11Planning BoardPlanning Board Meeting Pt. 1(Public Hearing) 8/11/2650 passages longer discussion1:02:00Good evening. Um, I want to say that first I'm an advocate for affordable housing. And um, being an advocate for affordable housing and being for affordable housing means that we should build affordable housing. It doesn't mean that we should continue to wait and we continue to have excuses.
- 14:25… a matter that the planning board has an opinion about legally. Um, state and federal housing policy, regional countywide distribution of affordable housing, uh, local taxation and public funding priorities, broader social and economic policy questions, whether or not the applicant has sufficient funding, issues related to consolidated affordable housing versus distributed …
- 20:00… mind of the water system and with what you see on the developments going around new neighborhood uh possible HHA redevelopment possible affordable housing is there any concern in your mind relative to
- 7:23or in the apartment.
- 15:26So, that's a problem because there's also, you know, the payroll and hospitalization and vouchers and expenses that all also have to be paid. So, um this is a last-minute resolution which I, you know, I went through with Margaret already. Um but but honestly it's for 100 grand and it probably should be more.
- 2026-07-28CEDC (Columbia Economic Development Corp.)CEDC Full Board Meeting 7/28/2613 passages longer discussion20:46… pocketbook, Providence Hall, top of Warren, Hudson Mansions at 600 Union Street for the county IDA, Wick Hotel, Clock Estate, Blue Spruce Apartments, Glover, Hudson,
- 6:47Um, so that is due this Friday. Okay. So, we've been working on that. Um the Riley money that you've heard of is um that's 250,000 for the fountain phase of the project. That also will take some time. That's through housing and urban development and they haven't even issued the um guidance book for that for um those monies.
- 2026-07-24Historic PreservationHistoric Preservation Commission Meeting - July 24, 20269 passages longer discussion36:11… potentially some subsidy uh if they for example were to convert uh a building on the alleys to uh a family occupancy or even a straight up rental entrance. Uh, one of the things we struggle with is that, uh, folks are are sometimes styied by what to do with alley garages and so on. Uh, and often enough, they kind of do nothing and the thing deteriorates. This may give us …
- 19:21I thank you. And so no resolutions or motions already covered RFP. Um so that brings us to the housing trust fund. a letter to
- 21:47… whatever the end number is project. We have the John L. Edwards project which will add 65 lowincome senior housing units to the city so tenants from the housing authority could possibly move there. It's just uh at right now I don't see how the Hudson housing authority can absorb or fill 300 units. Um, you know, also the previous planning board uh had a market rate apartment …
- 2026-07-21CEDC (Columbia Economic Development Corp.)CEDC Finance Committee Meeting 7/21/264 passages longer discussion9:37um, last year we had $100,000 more this at this time uh, in the year because we had $45,000 in housing money and we had $75,000 in Columbia forward money. Uh, and you remember the the county did increase our appropriation by $40,000. Uh, but we were getting 150,000 under New York Forward or I'm sorry, Columbia Forward and we're getting uh $90,000 a year under uh the housing …
- 2026-07-21HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 7/21/2026 Board of Education Meeting2 passages32:45And brings us to uh Mr. Hilgenorf sewer and tenant report.