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FUTURE PLANS: Senate President Valerie J. Lawson, right, talks in her Statehouse office about her vision for the 2026 General Assembly session, starting Jan. 6. With her is Senate Majority Leader Frank A. Ciccone III. 
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What should state lawmakers prioritize (besides a balanced budget) in this...

State lawmakers return to work on Jan. 5 with a projected $101 million fiscal 2027 shortfall and a long list of legislative priorities to...
BUCKLE UP: The Special Legislative Commission to Study Housing Affordability meets at the Statehouse in December. When the full General Assembly reconvenes this month, health care, housing and a budget deficit will be atop a long list of issues awaiting state lawmakers. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

Health care, affordable housing on GA’s election-year docket

Compared to last year, the $101 million fiscal 2027 shortfall facing state lawmakers as they return to work this month may be cause for...

R.I. gets $1.7M from FHLBank Boston for affordable housing efforts

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island will receive a total of $1.7 million for affordable housing from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston that will...
Steve Callahan Jr.

This is one big opportunity for affordable housing

The shortage of affordable housing in Rhode Island and the South Coast region of Massachusetts is a challenge that lawmakers, businesses and state agencies...

Attleboro senior housing complex set to receive upgraded high-speed internet

ATTLEBORO – Mayor Cathleen DeSimone collaborated with the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, the Massachusetts Broadband Institute and the Preservation of Affordable Housing to announce the...

Developer revives Belton Court plan with mix of market-rate, affordable homes

BARRINGTON – A developer has revised plans to redevelop the long-vacant Belton Court estate into a 344-unit housing development. Shineharmony Holdings plans to create “Belton...

Westerly Planning Board’s rejection of housing plan upheld in Superior Court

WESTERLY – The Planning Board’s rejection of a controversial affordable housing proposal was upheld by a R.I. Superior Court judge. On Aug. 26, a Washington...
NEW DIGS: Invited dignitaries and officials tour 2 Hammett Court in Jamestown in June. The housing project is unique because it is considered affordable housing that is also constructed to be accessible to those with disabilities. 
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Being affordable is only half of it for these homes

When Carla DeStefano first heard of plans to transform a battered office building in Jamestown into affordable housing designed for those with physical and...
LEGISLATION signed into law by Gov. Daniel J. McKee on June 27 has created a statewide "housing land bank" operated by the R.I. Housing and Mortgage Finance Corp. that will accept, hold, transfer and sell properties for redevelopment into housing. / PBN FILE PHOTO/WILLIAM HAMILTON

R.I.’s new ‘housing land bank’ will set sights on vacant, unused...

Rhode Island has added yet another tool in its battle to ease the shortage of housing in the state, creating a "housing land bank"...
A WELCOME DEVELOPMENT: Marisa Angell Brown, Providence Preservation Society executive director, is eagerly awaiting the redevelopment of the former Providence Journal headquarters at Westminster and Eddy streets in downtown Providence. The building has been mostly vacant for more than a decade. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Old ProJo Building revival getting closer to reality

For more than a century, 203 Westminster St. has stood like a baroque sentinel in downtown Providence – a grand Beaux-Arts building that once...
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