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Smaller households, bigger houses

Commentary 06/15/2018

The average U.S. household is 24 percent (or 0.82 people) smaller than it was in the early 1960s. This downtrend has flattened out a...

HOUSING AROUND: Barbara Fields, executive director at R.I. Housing and Mortgage Finance Corp., has earned a reputation as a passionate proponent of affordable housing. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Fields improves how R.I. Housing fosters community, opportunity

Business Women 05/25/2018

Industry Leader, Social Services | Barbara Fields, R.I. Housing While Barbara Fields may not remember the exact moment she decided what she wanted to...

THE PROVIDENCE City Council on Thursday pushed forward a zoning change that would allow a New York developer to construct the city’s tallest building.Above, a rendering of the Hope Point Tower. / COURTESY FANE ORGANIZATION

Providence should not let past strangle its future potential

Editorial and Op-Ed 05/18/2018

By rejecting the Fain Organization’s proposed changes to zoning in the Interstate 195 Redevelopment District, the Providence City Plan Commission seems to be more...

ENOUGH BEING BUILT? Affordable housing advocates see this complex being built in Burrillville, Garvey Ledges Lane, as important for the state, but they see too few of these kinds of projects coming to fruition in Rhode Island. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Is there enough affordable housing in your town?

Real Estate 05/06/2018

The 2017 Housing Fact Book from HousingWorks RI at Roger Williams University notes that households earning the state’s median income of $56,852 in 2016...

A SIMPLE SOLUTION: R.I. Housing Executive Director Barbara Fields, pictured in the agency’s offices, believes one important step in tackling the state’s affordable-housing crisis is to build more housing. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Affordable housing is more than an inexpensive place to live

Editorials 04/27/2018

The inability of people – especially young people starting out in their careers with less than median salaries and high college debt – to...

SINGLE-FAMILY homes in Rhode Island cost a median price of $252,250 in the first quarter of 2018. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS

R.I. single-family home prices tick up 9.7% in Q1

Economic Activity 04/25/2018

PROVIDENCE – Single-family home sales in Rhode Island declined 2.2 percent in the first quarter of 2018 year over year, while prices rose nearly...

THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION of Rhode Island has appealed a Superior Court ruling on FHC V. City of Providence that prohibited more than three college students from living in non-owner-occupied single-family homes in certain residential areas. The case now proceeds to the R.I. Supreme Court.

ACLU appeals ruling in Providence student housing ordinance case

Government 04/13/2018

PROVIDENCE – The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island is appealing a R.I. Superior Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of a Providence...

THE HOUSING NETWORK of Rhode Island announced its 2018 awardees which will be honored at its annual meeting on May 21.

Housing Network of Rhode Island announces 2018 awardees, annual meeting

Nonprofit 03/20/2018

PROVIDENCE - The Housing Network of Rhode Island will mark a year of progress in affordable housing at its annual meeting on May 21,...

Elbow Room The older affluent are opting to downsize, compared with the vast swaths of square footage some of their younger counterparts of means are after – 23 percent of them want at least 20,000. / Source: Luxury Portfolio International

Survey: Rich millennials want huge luxury homes

Real Estate 02/09/2018

A new generation of affluent homebuyers powered by a surge in inherited wealth is driving the luxury-home market, demanding larger spaces and fancier finishes,...