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Businesses can play key role in boosting workforce housing

NO TIME TO WASTE: VIBCO Inc. CEO and President Karl Wadensten isn’t waiting for state leaders to solve Rhode Island’s workforce housing shortage. He’s looking to build so-called “tiny homes” on the campus of his Richmond business that can be rented to workers.
COURTESY KARL WADENSTEN
NO TIME TO WASTE: VIBCO Inc. CEO and President Karl Wadensten isn’t waiting for state leaders to solve Rhode Island’s workforce housing shortage. He’s looking to build so-called “tiny homes” on the campus of his Richmond business that can be rented to workers.
COURTESY KARL WADENSTEN

Could so-called “tiny homes” help solve Rhode Island’s affordable housing shortage? One business owner, VIBCO Inc. CEO and President Karl Wadensten, thinks so. He’s looking to build small, easy-to-construct rental housing units for employees he says are struggling like so many others to find affordable housing. He’s tried to get state leaders interested in such

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