By introducing a resolution to oppose the exemption of Stony Run, a 266-unit apartment complex in Kingston, from Emergency Tenant Protection Act (ETPA) rent regulations, Sara Pasti, the first-term alder for the ward which contains the apartment complex, has come down decisively on the side of tenants.

Her resolution opens yet another front in the constant skirmishing which surrounds both rental housing affordability and availability in communities all across the Hudson Valley.

Picking a side appeared inevitable. No other topic in Kingston has so predictably brought throngs of residents to the city hall council chambers, month after month, year after year, to harangue and lecture their elected representatives.

Pasti, an émigrée of New York City who spent 18 years in Beacon, a city recent

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