Tag: affordable housing
HousingWorks Fact Book: Housing affordability in R.I. still out of reach
PROVIDENCE – While steps have been taken to address the state’s housing crisis and Rhode Island’s labor market is recovering in a strong way,...
Citizens Financial Group announces $50B sustainable financing target
PROVIDENCE – Citizens Financial Group Inc. on Tuesday announced a $50 billion sustainable finance target that includes $5 billion in green financing by 2030...
Former church in Cumberland officially acquired by One Neighborhood Builders for...
CUMBERLAND – A former church is now officially in the hands of One Neighborhood Builders, and the organization is currently in pre-development to convert...
Berman awarded for community development leadership
ANNE BERMAN, director of real estate for the R.I. Housing and Mortgage Finance Corp., received the 2023 Joseph A. Caffey Award from the Housing...
R.I. launches affordable housing database
PROVIDENCE – As part of a larger push to ease Rhode Island’s housing crisis, the state has launched a new housing search database focused on affordable...
Housing advocates pleased with legislative strides, but are they enough?
With this year’s legislative session over and the $14 billion fiscal 2024 budget settled, the state's top housing official and affordable housing advocates say...
23 housing developments across R.I. receive $101M in funding
PROVIDENCE – More than $101 million in funding is being awarded to 23 developments across 13 municipalities to support building new housing units, Gov....
Should Providence limit the number of college students living in multifamily...
The Providence City Council is considering extending existing restrictions on the number of college students allowed in single-family housing to some multifamily units.
The city...
MAKING ROOM In the MIDDLE: R.I. struggles to create workforce housing,...
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...
Businesses can play key role in boosting workforce housing
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...
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