BUILDING BONDS: New housing, higher ed facilities top $343M in bond issues on ballot

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IN PROGRESS: The nonprofit SWAP Inc. (Stop Wasting Abandoned Property) is building this two-family house at Burnside and Arnold streets in East Providence to sell to a family that meets income limits. Supporters of Question 3 on the ballot say similar affordable housing programs will be funded with a $120 million bond issue. 
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IN PROGRESS: The nonprofit SWAP Inc. (Stop Wasting Abandoned Property) is building this two-family house at Burnside and Arnold streets in East Providence to sell to a family that meets income limits. Supporters of Question 3 on the ballot say similar affordable housing programs will be funded with a $120 million bond issue. 
PBN PHOTO/WILLIAM HAMILTON

In Rhode Island, $107,452 won’t get residents very far in the housing market. That figure – the state’s median household income – doesn’t support an affordable home purchase in any of the Ocean State’s 39 municipalities, according to the 2024 Housing Fact Book, an annual publication compiled by HousingWorks RI at Roger Williams University. This

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