Housing Developments: The Hudson's Best Hope

The construction of condominiums and other housing along the Hudson is beneficial for all parties involved. The housing projects proposed in Sleepy Hollow and other towns will help to bring economic prosperity to the region. The housing will bring new tenants to the area which means more tax revenue, and it will create jobs first for building the structures and then later for helping in their upkeep. Secondly, the construction will help to reinvigorate the aesthetic beauty of the Hudson region by tearing down the old factories that have served as eye soars for so many years.

Many of the environmental groups involved such as Scenic Hudson fail to see the positive outcomes housing developments along will produce. Instead they have a singular view of the Hudson as it once was, devoid of any man made structures. What they should realize is the Housing along the Hudson presents a compromise. The people who move in to the condominiums will share scenic Hudson’s interest in maintaining the beauty of the river. The alternative to the housing are factories and plants that will once again pollute the river and the region.

The Hudson will never be the untouched paradise Henry Hudson discovered. People and commerce are here to stay. Once environmentalists come to this realization they will see that the Housing developments are in the best interests of all parties involved.