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A nationwide coalition of organizations serving domestic violence survivors and unhoused people — including six based in ...
Rhode Island's new Secretary of Housing has plans to address longstanding department issues, from a lack of organization to homelessness response.
A recently passed $120 million housing bond will go before voters in November. It’s worth celebrating while also nowhere near enough, writes the director of the Rhode Island office of LISC.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island House Speaker Joseph Shekarchi is pushing a package of more than a dozen bills aimed at addressing the state's ongoing housing crisis One proposal would give ...
We crunched numbers and traced the history of housing in Rhode Island to lay out how we got to this point.
The housing crisis is affecting everyone, from new college grads to aging empty nesters to employers looking to hire. Making it possible to build accessory dwelling units by-right makes sense for ...
"The for-profit private sector did not solve this housing crisis when interest rates were low and they are going to build even less now that rates are on the rise," the Rhode Island AFL-CIO stated.
Rhode Island is experiencing a housing crisis, and not doing enough to solve the problem — but the state’s brand-new Department of Housing could make progress if it’s adequately staffed ...
(WJAR) — Top lawmakers are working to help fix the state's housing crisis. House Speaker Joe Shekarchi has a package of 14 bills to address affordable housing and increase housing production ...
Activists and state legislators are considering supportive housing — which combines affordable housing with wraparound social services — as a means of addressing Rhode Island’s homelessness crisis and ...
Rhode Island remains at the bottom in housing production when population is factored in. The 1,374 units approved last year are 125 for every 100,000 residents.