Tag: Brenda Clement
Eviction stay fails to appease many
An eviction moratorium is available through the end of the year for residential tenants who file a simple declaration with their landlord, thanks to...
EVICTION DILEMMA: Both tenants, small landlords vulnerable as crisis...
Ilanna Ball isn’t exactly a real estate tycoon – she owns two triple-deckers, a few other multifamily houses and manages another 45 rental properties...
Will this tax solve R.I.’s affordable-housing problem?
Rhode Island needs more affordable apartments and houses. Most housing experts agree on this. But should state funds for home creation come from luxury...
I-195 panel moves to tackle housing dilemma
How much housing in the I-195 Redevelopment District is too much? Three of the four district parcels that have received approval for new development,...
Lack of new, affordable R.I. homes a growing problem
Richard Marcello, a homebuilder of 34 years, remembers when many new houses were under construction across Rhode Island. He started building homes with his...
State needs new direction on housing
The Great Recession is often pointed to as when construction of new single-family homes precipitously dropped, and from which the state has yet to...
Five Questions With: Brenda Clement
Brenda Clement, the executive director of HousingWorks RI at Roger Williams University, is one of the people involved in Homes RI, a new coalition...
As investment boosts city neighborhoods, can developers avoid displacing the poor?
Twenty years ago, Jeffrey Kerkhoff opened a floral studio in a narrow backroom of an upholstery business on Broadway, on the west side of...
Five Questions With: Brenda Clement
Brenda Clement is the director of HousingWorks RI at Roger Williams University, and recently completed a nine-year term on the National Low Income Housing...
Can more housing stop gentrification?
If neighborhoods in Providence are experiencing gentrification, as a recent report suggests, what can reasonably be done to help existing residents stay in their...
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