A palpable feeling of collective accomplishment — of a community job well done – wafted through the cloudy, chilly air at the ribbon-cutting early last Friday afternoon of the Golden Hill Apartments, the 164-unit affordable housing project in Kingston co-developed by Pennrose and Family of Woodstock. At the beginning of the inevitable speechifying, the sun peeking for a fleeting moment through the clouds served as a benediction reminiscent of a slogan Family of Woodstock had adopted during its hippie days of the early 1970s: “Any problem under the sun.”

The problem, in the 1970s as now, is the lack of appropriate affordable housing in Ulster County. And all apartments in this project, which adds just short of 1.5 percent to the total number of Kingston’s housing units, are available e

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