{"id":377731,"date":"2026-10-20T09:23:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T09:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/377731\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T09:23:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T09:23:56","slug":"need-for-a-broader-housing-strategy-in-ulster-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/377731\/","title":{"rendered":"Need for a broader housing strategy in Ulster County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ulster County Legislator Debra Clinton discusses the challenges of serving both rural and more populated parts of the county, including gaps in transportation, warming centers and mental health services.<\/p>\n<p>She also talks about the need for a broad housing strategy that addresses affordability, homelessness and workforce housing, while making sure people can access jobs and services.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton also looks at the tradeoffs that come with new development, including data centers, and the importance of protecting farmland, agriculture and local communities as Ulster County grows.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the full interview above. And be sure to tune in for a look inside the biggest issues impacting upstate New York on In Focus with JoDee Kenney \u2014 every Sunday on Spectrum News 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ulster County Legislator Debra Clinton discusses the challenges of serving both rural and more populated parts of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7423,7424,9,11,10,49,51,50,200],"class_list":["post-377731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-in-focus","tag-jodee-kenney","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}