Some Providence residents want stricter regulation of student housing. A city commission agrees but is it discrimination?

Mary MacDonald

01/25/2019

WARY LANDLORD: Dustin Dezube, owner of Providence Student Living Capital LLC, has 125 properties in Providence, including several buildings on East Transit Street that are newly constructed or renovated. He mostly rents to college students and is concerned a proposed city regulation to expand an existing three-student cap to all structures in single-family zones, could also be applied to multifamily zones.   / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Over the past eight years, Providence Student Living Capital LLC has purchased and renovated more than 100 residential structures in Providence, mostly multifamily units. And moving into those apartments, for the most part, are college students. Dustin Dezube, the company owner, rents about 380 beds among his 120 units. Many of his apartments are expansive

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