PBN on WJAR-TV, Jan. 28, 2019

Some Providence residents want stricter regulation of student housing. A city commission agrees but is it discrimination?

Every week, PBN Editor Mark S. Murphy appears on WJAR-TV NBC 10’s Coffee Break to discuss the newspaper’s most recent cover story and other issues with Sunrise and Noon News Anchor Frank Coletta.

This week Murphy and Coletta talk about staff writer Mary MacDonald’s cover story update on the long-running dispute between college students living off-campus and residents of neighborhoods resisting the influx of the young people, with a special focus on recent zoning rule changes, in a story called “Off-campus housing crackdown?”