Rhode Island Housing And Mortgage Finance Corp.

FORGING AHEAD: East Bay Community Development Corp. Executive Director Diane Mederos, left, and consultant Frank Spinella stand at the future site for Penny Lane, a 40-unit affordable housing project planned along Child Street in Warren. Neighbors opposed the plans, but it eventually gained approval in part because the town’s ratio of affordable housing is too low.  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

MISSING THE MARK: State leaders weigh how to get cities, towns...

Cover Story 06/06/2025

The coastal town of Little Compton has long been a peaceful retreat from urban life, known for its rural landscapes, ancient stone walls and...

UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Michelle Wilcox,  CEO and president of Crossroads Rhode Island, stands in front of the Summer Street Apartments project in Providence, a five-story development by Crossroads that will feature 176 single-bed residences for those who were previously homeless. PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

Tapping the private sector: Could R.I. businesses provide more affordable housing...

Cover Story 08/02/2024

As Martha L. Wofford stood at a construction site in Providence’s West End in August 2022, the scaffolding at the site caught her eye...

OPEN SPACE:  Meliza Urquhart, community manager at Paragon Mill in Providence, shows one of the new units offered at “workforce” rates for people who earn between 80% and 120% of the area’s median income. Demand in that slice of the housing market is far beyond the supply.  PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

MAKING ROOM In the MIDDLE: R.I. struggles to create workforce housing,...

Cover Story 04/28/2023

For nursing assistant Johnbray Brown, moving into a workforce-rate unit in the renovated Paragon Mill in Providence’s Olneyville neighborhood was a hard-won victory spanning...

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...

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,...

COLLABORATIVE TASK: Staff members from several R.I. Housing departments review plans for a housing development.   / COURTESY R.I. HOUSING AND MORTGAGE FINANCE CORP.

R.I. Housing and Mortgage Finance Corp.

Financial Services 06/14/2019

Best Places to Work 2019 | LARGE COMPANIES (150-499 employees): 10. R.I. Housing and Mortgage Finance Corp. How would you describe the culture of your...

PURPOSE-DRIVEN: Approximately 28 percent of R.I. Housing employees are millennials. Research shows the generation wants work with a purpose.  / COURTESY R.I. HOUSING AND MORTGAGE FINANCE CORP.

R.I. Housing and Mortgage Finance Corp.

Nonprofit 06/15/2018

BEST PLACES TO WORK 2018 11. LARGE COMPANIES | R.I. Housing and Mortgage Finance Corp. Employees in R.I.: 239 Executive Director Barbara Fields Questions answered by: Barbara Farrand,...

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