OPEN SPACE: Meliza Urquhart, community manager at Paragon Mill in Providence, shows one of the new units offered at “workforce” rates for people who earn between 80% and 120% of the area’s median income. Demand in that slice of the housing market is far beyond the supply. PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO
For nursing assistant Johnbray Brown, moving into a workforce-rate unit in the renovated Paragon Mill in Providence’s Olneyville neighborhood was a hard-won victory spanning two years, countless inquiries and numerous apartment viewings packed with others in a similar situation. Brown looked into more places than she can recall, ultimately submitting well over 20 applications, she…
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