HousingWorks RI at Roger Williams University

No one should be ‘without a place to call home’

Digital Special Editions 08/14/2026

FOR MANY RHODE ISLANDERS, economic stability relies substantially on the cost and location of their housing. A healthy, well-functioning housing market balances the needs for...

Residents, leaders discuss affordable housing solutions at policy breakfast

Health Services 11/17/2024

HOPKINTON – Residents, community leaders and policymakers convened Oct. 30 for a policy breakfast to discuss “Housing All of Our Neighbors: Creating Affordable Housing...

THE 2023 HOUSING Fact Book from HousingWorks RI at Roger Williams University notes that while steps have been taken to address the housing crisis in the state, housing affordability is still a problem. / COURTESY HOUSINGWORKS RI AT ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY

HousingWorks Fact Book: Housing affordability in R.I. still out of reach

Housing 10/20/2023

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,...

Special commission highlights legislation aimed at addressing state’s affordable housing crisis

Economy 03/10/2022

PROVIDENCE - A legislative commission tasked with examining affordable housing in Rhode Island highlighted a package of 11 pieces of legislation Thursday aimed at...

Five Questions With: Brenda Clement

In Their Own Words 11/03/2021

Brenda Clement is the head of HousingWorks RI at Roger Williams University, a clearing house of information furthering the conversation around housing affordability and...

2021 Housing Fact Book: Inequities, health concerns plague Rhode Island

Health Services 10/15/2021

PROVIDENCE – A growing risk on health posed by older housing stock and increasingly unaffordable options for homes in Rhode Island are furthering social...

HousingWorks RI using grants to develop 10-year plan for senior housing

Real Estate 09/01/2021

PROVIDENCE – With funding from two of the state’s major health insurance companies, the nonprofit research group HousingWorks RI at Roger Williams University is...

DOUBLE DUTY: Virginia Burdick, a certified nursing assistant and mother of two, stands in front of her two-bedroom apartment in South Kingstown. Burdick, who works two jobs to be able to afford the rent for the apartment, was recently approved by the South County Habitat for Humanity for one of its homes in Exeter, which she hopes to move into by the end of the year. / PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

MISSING MIDDLE: R.I. focuses on finding housing for people who fall...

Cover Story 06/11/2021

Certified nursing assistant Virginia Burdick works two jobs so she can afford the rent for her cramped, two-bedroom apartment in South Kingstown. Her daughter,...

TOUGH BALANCE: Elizabeth Bentley, a single mother who lives in a rented house in Jamestown with two of her children, says it’s been difficult balancing jobs as a server at two different restaurants and paying her rent on time. She normally has a third job in home health care but was told by her manager not to return due to a high risk of exposure to COVID-19 while working in restaurants. / PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

EVICTION DILEMMA: Both tenants, small landlords vulnerable as crisis...

Coronavirus 08/21/2020

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...