A SIMPLE SOLUTION: R.I. Housing Executive Director Barbara Fields, pictured in the agency’s offices, believes one important step in tackling the state’s affordable-housing crisis is to build more housing. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY
The inability of people – especially young people starting out in their careers with less than median salaries and high college debt – to afford a place to live can deprive a region of its economic lifeblood. Barbara Fields, the subject of this week’s cover story Q&A, knows this reality intimately. She is the executive…
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