Lack of new, affordable R.I. homes a growing problem

Mary MacDonald

10/25/2019

NEW DEVELOPMENT: The home pictured here is part of The Oaks housing development in Coventry, one of the largest residential subdivisions under active construction in Rhode Island. The development will have 105 houses when complete.  / PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

Richard Marcello, a homebuilder of 34 years, remembers when many new houses were under construction across Rhode Island. He started building homes with his father as a teenager, drawn to the mental and physical challenges of the work. Now there are new challenges. Marcello’s Exeter-based Knollwood Building Co. builds homes for the entry-level buyer, but

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