Housing ONE Schenectady Together
Housing ONE Schenectady Together (HOST)
HOST aims to connect, empower, and mobilize Schenectady's tenants, landlords, homeowners, neighborhood leaders, elected officials, and staff with the City & County of Schenectady to create and maintain quality homes for all in neighborhoods where everyone can thrive.
Our Big Picture Aspirations
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- All community members live in a quality home that allows them to thrive and unleash their full potential
- Address root causes of economic inequities
- Facilitate positive communication between all roles involved in housing: tenants, homeowners, landlords, neighborhood leaders, city & county staff, and elected officials.
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Let's Talk Housing & What We Can Do Together
All are welcome to join a community conversation about housing in Schenectady!
Housing touches all of us—and we all have a role to play in creating a Schenectady where everyone has a quality home and every neighborhood can thrive.
Join tenants, landlords, homeowners, unhoused neighbors, neighborhood leaders, service providers, city and county staff, elected officials, and others for an evening of shared learning, connection, and opportunities for action.
Come to listen. Come to connect. Come ready to act.
Register for the next meeting HERE.
HOST is part of ONE Schenectady, a community-driven movement for just and thriving communities.
After the first Let's Talk Housing Forum on June 30, 2026, HOST has been coming together for monthly zoom conversations that dive deeper into community-identified housing priorities. To view the recordings and notes from past Let's Talk Housing sessions and access other housing data and resources, please visit the HOST Website.
Resources
- Housing ONE Schenectady Together (HOST) Website - The HOST Website includes recordings and notes from each of our Let's Talk Housing conversations over the past year +, as well a preliminary network map of players in our local housing system.
- 2026 Schenectady County ALICE Report - ALICE is an acronym for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed—households that earn more than the Federal Poverty Level, but less than the basic cost of living for the county. This report shows that many households continue to struggle, especially as wages fail to keep pace with the rising cost of household essentials (housing, child care, food, transportation, health care, and a basic smartphone plan, not to mention payment on debts).
- Schenectady County Homeless Services Planning Board's "2026 Housing Inventory Chart (HIC) / Point-In-Time (PIT) Data Analysis - This report from the City and County of Schenectady's Continuum of Care shows shows trends in the number of beds available and demand by individuals.
- 2026 City of Schenectady Neighborhood Housing Report - This 2026 report prepared by Sean Radigan (HOST Steering Committee member, and Schenectady Tenants And Residents member) uses 2024 census tract data from the American Community Survey to show housing statistics broken out by neighborhood.
- 2026 City of Schenectady Housing Stability Task Force Report - This report reflects the data, information, and findings of the Task Force, chaired by Councilmember Kim Wiggins with 7 volunteer members who were charged with: Conducting a review of local housing trends, eviction filings, rent burdens, and vacancy rates. Data and perspecitves were gathered over the course of 7 public meetings from April to July 2026. The Task Force was originally convenened after policy discussions about Good Cause Eviction resulted in a desire to collect further data.
- City of Schenectady Rent & Eviction Statistics - This spreadsheet assembled by Sean Radigan draws upon many sources of data about rent and eviction in Schenectady. The data is presented as a resource without a summary or narrative.
- 2025 Electric City Recharged Phase I Report - This report prepared as part of the Electric City Recharged Comprehensive Planning Process includes a "Socioeconomic & Housing Profile" (p21), "Neighborhood Profiles" (p23), and several goals related to housing, including Goal 1, Objective 1: Expand Diverse, Attainable, Affordable, and Quality Housing Choices for All." (p42). Strategic recommendations for advancing housing goals should be available for review in November.
