Fair House provides resource for homeless and disabled

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CELEBRATING A SYMBOLIC RIBBON-CUTTING on May 22 at the Pawtuxet Village Fair House, which will serve as affordable housing for the homeless and disabled, are, from left: Richard Corley, Warwick City Council member, Ward 1; Deborah Imondi, president, House of Hope; Rep. Joseph M. McNamara, D-Warwick; Mike Chapman, Fair House tenant; Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian; Laura Jaworski, House of Hope executive director; Alice Pace, chairperson, Pawtuxet Village Association; Maria Nichols, vice president, Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston; Carol Ventura, deputy director, R.I. Housing; and Karen Flora, of the R.I. Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals. /COURTESY HOUSE OF HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP.
CELEBRATING A SYMBOLIC RIBBON-CUTTING on May 22 at the Pawtuxet Village Fair House, which will serve as affordable housing for the homeless and disabled, are, from left: Richard Corley, Warwick City Council member, Ward 1; Deborah Imondi, president, House of Hope; Rep. Joseph M. McNamara, D-Warwick; Mike Chapman, Fair House tenant; Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian; Laura Jaworski, House of Hope executive director; Alice Pace, chairperson, Pawtuxet Village Association; Maria Nichols, vice president, Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston; Carol Ventura, deputy director, R.I. Housing; and Karen Flora, of the R.I. Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals. /COURTESY HOUSE OF HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP.

WARWICK – Once the headquarters of the state fair, the Pawtuxet Village Fair House will soon serve as a haven for homeless and disabled individuals.

Nearly 75 people attended a late May ribbon-cutting ceremony in honor of the building’s newest mission, which was facilitated by its purchase in 2012 by Warwick-based nonprofit House of Hope Community Development Corp.

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“This $2.5 million renovation project really allows us to not only celebrate the past, but to look forward with new, exciting vigor as to what Fair House will become for other people,” said Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian in prepared remarks.

House of Hope plans to create eight, one- or two-bedroom apartments in the historic building.

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Emily Gowdey-Backus is a PBN staff writer. Email her at Gowdey-Backus@PBN.com, or you can follow her on Twitter @FlashGowdey.

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