For years, Pattern has heard from partners across the Hudson Valley and across sectors that the region does not have enough housing that low and moderate income households can afford. A recurring concern is that the primary metric used to determine affordability—Area Median Income (AMI)—does not accurately represent the economic realities of most tenants. [...]
Across the Hudson Valley, there are dozens of large, underutilized parking areas. Built under outdated and excessive parking mandates, these parking lots now sit mostly vacant while development pressures are directed toward farms, forests and other greenfields. Underutilized parking lots, often co-located with existing infrastructure and services, present a significant opportunity. By prioritizing redevelopment [...]
Out of Reach 2025 READ THE REPORT Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress and its Center for Housing Solutions & Community Initiatives have analyzed rental housing and wage data for more than a decade. Our reports on housing trends help lawmakers, nonprofit agencies, developers, and other stakeholders in their efforts to provide [...]
Hamlet of Wallkill: Strategic Economic Development Action Plan READ THE REPORT This plan is a Strategic Economic Development Action Plan (SEDAP) for the Hamlet of Wallkill (the hamlet). The purpose of this plan is to provide a series of actionable recommendations to improve quality of life and strengthen the local economy in [...]
What the NYSDEC wetlands updates mean for the region On January 1, 2025, revised freshwater wetland regulations went into effect from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). These new regulations represent the first substantial update to state wetland regulations since they were first implemented in 1975. A change of this significance [...]
LUNCH AND LEARN: An Introduction to Microtransit Watch the video now Learn more about the need for public transportation in the Hudson Valley and how demand-response microtransit could make transportation available to more people, in more places, more often. Microtransit is an emerging approach to transit that provides on-demand service [...]
LUNCH AND LEARN: OLD MALLS - NEW USES Pattern presented the finding of our report on the adaptive re-use of mall properties. Town of Amherst IDA Executive Director Dave Mingoia joined and explained how his town is using eminent domain and special financial agreements to redevelop its defunct mall. [...]
HUDSON VALLEY & NYC ROUNDTABLE A special conversation with NYC Planning Chairman Dan Garodnick When: February 25, 2025 Time: 10 am - 11: 15 am Where: Marist University, Poughkeepsie, NY- The Cabaret Join civic leaders for a unique discussion about economic development, transit, housing, and other issues that connect the Hudson Valley and [...]
OLD MALLS - NEW USES: A playbook for the adaptive reuse of mall properties in the Hudson Valley READ THE REPORT The Hudson Valley is home to more than a dozen indoor malls that were built in our suburban areas during the height of population growth in the late 1900s. [...]
AN INTRODUCTION TO MICROTRANSIT: Flexibility and Accessibility for the Hudson Valley READ THE REPORT For those who rely on it, a good public transit system is key to accessing necessary destinations, for independence, and for personal wellbeing. Public transit also supports economic stability, reduces traffic congestion and road maintenance costs, and is [...]
ACROSS THE AISLE State Edition When: December 2, 2024 Time: 8 a.m. Breakfast | 8:30 a.m. Event Where: Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY Join Pattern for a special breakfast event that will feature a conversation with four of our state lawmakers from the Hudson Valley. The event will feature two state senators and two [...]
NBC News uses Pattern report to underscore the growing number of people living in hotels throughout the United States. - READ THE ARTICLE HERE WHEN HOTELS BECOME HOME: The growing quantity, heartache, and cost of families living in hotels in the Mid-Hudson READ THE REPORT Over the past two years, [...]
LUNCH AND LEARN: STARTING FROM THE GROUND-FLOOR Join Pattern and officials from Arlington County, Virginia, to learn about how increasing the flexibility of permitted uses for ground-floor commercial space can improve economic resiliency, increase foot traffic, and improve overall downtown vitality. Communities in the Hudson Valley have taken a traditional [...]
LUNCH AND LEARN: BROWNFIELDS and REVITALIZATION Join Pattern and the NJIT Technical Assistance to Brownfield Communities (TAB) program to learn about successful efforts in the Northeast that utilized brownfield grants and tax credits to revitalize downtowns. This digital lunchtime session will introduce Hudson Valley communities to a host of programs [...]
CLOSED SCHOOLS, OPEN MINDS: How to bring new life to shuttered schools in the Hudson Valley READ THE REPORT Public school districts in the Hudson Valley have closed at least 46 school buildings over the past 25 years, as district leaders respond to sharp declines in student enrollment, along with political and [...]
Out of Reach 2024 READ THE REPORT Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress and its Center for Housing Solutions & Community Initiatives have analyzed rental housing and wage data for more than a decade. Our reports on housing trends help lawmakers, nonprofit agencies, developers, and other stakeholders in their efforts to provide [...]
Moving In, Moving Out: The effects of domestic migration on populations and regional incomes in the Hudson Valley READ THE REPORT New data from the federal government show that all parts of the Hudson Valley lost more people to domestic migration than they gained in 2021, a transition year that included [...]
Money Migration: Incomes, Migration, and Gentrification in the Hudson Valley during the Covid-19 Pandemic READ THE REPORT The movement of households throughout the State of New York during the Covid-19 pandemic also shifted the geographic distribution of incomes in the Hudson Valley. Relatively high-earning households from the New York City metropolitan [...]
WHAT IS ConnectAll? As part of the 2021 national Bipartisan Infrastructure bill, more than $664 million was allocated to New York State as part of the federal Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) Program. The newly formed New York State ConnectAll Office (CAO) will use these funds to improve internet [...]
Childcare in the Hudson Valley Childcare is essential to support our workforce and educate our kids. Why is this service steadily dwindling in the Hudson Valley? Families throughout the Hudson Valley rely on affordable, high-quality childcare to jumpstart the education of their kids and allow parents and guardians to get to work. That's [...]
Making It Mesh: How the Hudson Valley Can Prepare for Next-Gen Wireless READ THE REPORT The report – Making it Mesh: How the Hudson Valley Can Prepare for Next-Gen Wireless –will educate the Hudson Valley about the complex infrastructure that must be deployed for our region to have fifth-generation (5G) wireless [...]
ALICE in the Hudson Valley 2021 Data READ THE REPORT The ALICE project by United Way is an effort to quantify and describe the number of households that are struggling financially but not typically captured by traditional measures of poverty. ALICE stands for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed. In other words, [...]
Moving In, Moving Out: A 2023 Special Report -Analyzing the Movement of People Into and Out Of the Hudson Valley During 2019-2020 READ THE REPORT Why should we care about migration? Migration into and out of the Hudson Valley affects many aspects of life across the region, including schools, businesses, taxes, [...]
The Great People Shortage A Special Report - Analyzing Hudson Valley Demographic Trends and the Consequences READ THE REPORT Why? This research brief was inspired by a trend that elected leaders, economic development experts, and business owners have felt across the Hudson Valley for the past several years. Our neighbors often [...]
2024 EV UPDATE The considerable growth of electric vehicles (EV) on the road in the Hudson Valley, and the need for infrastructure to charge them, inspired Pattern’s 2022 study “Electric Vehicle Charging in the Hudson Valley.” This report provides an update to some of the essential data from the study, showing [...]
Moving In, Moving Out: A Special Report - A Special Report Analyzing Hudson Valley Demographic Changes Early in the Covid 19- Pandemic READ THE REPORT Why should we care about migration? Migration into and out of the Hudson Valley affects many aspects of life across the region, including schools, businesses, taxes, [...]
The Pathway Forward Read the Report As the region surveys the damage incurred by the pandemic and the economic disruption, many of our businesses and institutions are thinking about the best way forward. To assist in that process, Pattern has convened several work groups of its board members to discuss and determine [...]
At the HEART of the Region READ THE REPORT This report explores the important economic and cultural impacts of the Arts on the quality of life in the Hudson Valley. The Hudson Valley benefits from an incredible array of arts and cultural entities including Storm King Art Center, Art Omi, the [...]
Village of Ellenville Strategic Plan READ THE REPORT Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress released a Strategic Revitalization Action Plan for the Village of Ellenville. The plan provides goals and recommendations designed to support the revitalization of the Village and improve quality of life for Ellenville residents. The plan was funded through [...]
VULNERABILITY REVEALED: COVID-19 and the Hudson Valley Food System READ THE REPORT This report explores the growing issue of food insecurity in the Hudson Valley, recent disruptions to food supply, and ways to improve our regional food system and increase access to food. The recent news is full of images [...]
Out of Alignment An Overview of the Mid-Hudson Valley from the Great Recession to 2030 READ THE ABSTRACT READ THE REPORT VIEW THE APPENDICES - COUNTY PROFILES VISIT THE WEBSITE The Mid-Hudson Valley is at a crossroads. The aftermath of the Great Recession has [...]
Urban Action Agenda: The Evolution Continues READ THE REPORT The Urban Action Agenda is a multi-year initiative led by Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress to promote the revitalization and growth of urban centers throughout the nine-county Hudson Valley region, which includes Westchester, Rockland, Orange, Putnam, Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan, Columbia and Greene counties. The [...]
The Math Just Doesn't Work: Why Young Professionals Are Leaving the Hudson Valley READ THE REPORT Pattern for Progress announced the creation of a regional initiative to promote young professionals in the Hudson Valley when it hosted the second annual Greater Hudson Valley Young Professional Summit on Thursday, May 23, at SUNY [...]
The Momentum Continues: The Urban Action Agenda 2018 READ THE REPORT New “Urban Action Agenda” Report by Pattern Evaluates 25 Cities and Villages in Hudson Valley Newburgh – For the second year in a row, Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress has released a major report summarizing the progress of the Urban Action [...]
Economic Development for Hispanic and Latino Small Business: Focusing on Brewster, Liberty, Monticello, and Walden, New York READ THE REPORT Newburgh – Two new reports by Pattern for Progress address the needs of the growing Hispanic and Latino business community in urban areas in the mid-Hudson Valley. Released in partnership with Community [...]
Strategic Economic Development for Latino and Hispanic Small Business READ THE REPORT Newburgh – Two new reports by Pattern for Progress address the needs of the growing Hispanic and Latino business community in urban areas in the mid-Hudson Valley. Released in partnership with Community Capital of New York (CCNY), the reports [...]
Urban Action Agenda: A Program in Motion READ THE REPORT NEW PATTERN FOR PROGRESS REPORT: HUDSON VALLEY’S TRANSFORMING CITIES AND URBAN AREAS ARE PREPARING FOR NEXT WAVE OF GROWTH With New York City becoming more expensive, valley rolls out welcome mat; Pattern’s data-driven analysis provides broad-based yet very local look at region’s [...]
Changing Hudson Valley Population Trends READ THE REPORT VIEW REPORT HIGHLIGHTS NEWBURGH, September 22, 2015 – Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress has issued a report entitled “Changing Hudson Valley – Population Trends.” The report details where in the nine-county Hudson Valley region there is growth and decline, along with who is [...]
