Tag: Homeownership
Five Questions With Marcela Betancur
Marcela Betancur | Director, Latino Policy Institute at Roger Williams University
1. You have significant experience in housing. How does this relate to the work...
Housing is back, but the American dream isn’t?
The housing market has made a remarkable – if partial – recovery since the disaster that befell it 10 years ago. In the years...
Five Questions With Jim Vincent
Jim Vincent | President, NAACP Providence Branch
1. What is on top of the NAACP Providence Branch agenda? Gentrification in Providence is on the rise,...
Opinion: Millennials leave the basement to buy homes
A few years ago, I wrote “The economy will one day improve, and the millennials will move out of their parents’ basements. When that happens, expect...
Report: R.I. homeownership rates declined from 2009-2015
PROVIDENCE – Between 2009 and 2015, homeownership declined in Rhode Island for every age group except for those 60 and older, according to a...