ORANGE COUNTY, N.Y.—At the first Housing Task Force Committee meeting on March 27, legislators set goals to comprehensively measure housing shortages and figure out ways to address them in the county.
According to a recent report by Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress, the median home sales price in Orange County hit a record high of $430,000 last year, which was 65 percent more than the 2019 median.
Robert Sassi, county legislator and chairman of the newly formed task force, said that a series of expert speakers will be invited in the coming months to help lawmakers gauge existing challenges and come up with suggestions for enhancing housing affordability….