RentReliefRI - Providence Business News

LEGAL  ASSISTANCE: Rhode Island Legal Services staff attorney Brian Furgal, Roger Williams University School of Law student Nicole Palmer, center, and RWU faculty member Eliza Vorengerg operate the Eviction Help Desk outside Sixth District Court at the Garrahy Judicial Complex in Providence. PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

Housing crisis putting eviction law in spotlight

Coronavirus 10/14/2022

Most of Providence Mayor Jorge O. Elorza’s peers at Harvard Law School weren’t interested in eviction defense work. The pay was low. Elorza, who worked...

Five Questions With: Mikalai Zhukavets

In Their Own Words 07/20/2022

As a leasing director for the Pawtucket-based Nexus Property Management LLC since 2017, Mikalai Zhukavets is on the front lines of the residential rental...

RentReliefRI to close to new applications June 1

Housing 05/23/2022

PROVIDENCE – With allocated funding nearing its end, the RentReliefRI program will close to new applications at the end of the day on June...

RHODE ISLAND'S RentReliefRI program has distributed $100 million in rent and utility assistance to Rhode Islanders impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

RentReliefRI assistance program reaches $100M distribution milestone

Coronavirus 01/14/2022

PROVIDENCE – The state’s RentReliefRI program has surpassed $100 million in rental and utility assistance distributed to Rhode Islanders in need who have been...

HALLWAY LAW: Troy Lange, staff attorney for the Housing Law Center at Rhode Island Legal Services, works at the Eviction Help Desk outside District Court in Providence, ready to help low-income tenants unfamiliar with the legal proceedings. / PBN PHOTO/MARC LAROCQUE

At court, tenants facing eviction find ‘heartbreak hallway’

Coronavirus 10/29/2021

The third-floor hallway of the Garrahy Judicial Complex in Providence was choked on a recent Thursday morning with tired-looking families, upset mothers with baby...

With the end coming soon for a federal moratorium on evictions – a measure put in place amid the coronavirus pandemic – more than a quarter of Rhode Island renters may be at risk of losing their homes, according to a new study. AP FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL DWYER

Study: More than 25% of R.I. renters at risk of losing...

Economic Activity 07/27/2021

PROVIDENCE – With the end coming soon for a federal moratorium on evictions – a measure put in place amid the coronavirus pandemic –...

Five Questions With: Christine Hunsinger

In Their Own Words 06/30/2021

Christine Hunsinger is the chief strategy and innovation officer for the R.I. Housing and Mortgage Finance Corp. She explained what the new RentReliefRI program...