Tag: Rhode Island Housing
In 2024, voters OK’d $120M housing bond; Gov. McKee is seeking...
Over the last two decades, Rhode Island voters have approved five bonds totaling $310 million aimed at making housing more affordable, but now Gov....
RIHousing customers notified of data breach
PROVIDENCE – Mortgage customers of R.I. Housing and Mortgage Finance Corp. have been notified their personal information was involved in a data breach last...
Barbara Jordan II apartments in Providence to be redeveloped
PROVIDENCE – Developers are invited to propose options for rehabilitating the Barbara Jordan II apartments, now a shuttered, affordable-housing development in South Providence.
The scattered-site...
Barbara Fields to leave ED role at R.I. Housing in March
PROVIDENCE – R.I. Housing CEO and Executive Director Barbara Fields will step down from her role in March when her contract expires, R.I. Housing...
As investment boosts city neighborhoods, can developers avoid displacing the poor?
Twenty years ago, Jeffrey Kerkhoff opened a floral studio in a narrow backroom of an upholstery business on Broadway, on the west side of...
Moody’s upgrades $105M bond issue rating for Rhode Island Housing
PROVIDENCE — Moody’s Investor Service has upgraded the rating for bond series to be issued by Rhode Island Housing.
The ratings increase of one position,...
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Executive Director Barbara Fields
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Can more housing stop gentrification?
If neighborhoods in Providence are experiencing gentrification, as a recent report suggests, what can reasonably be done to help existing residents stay in their...
RIH allocates $3.5M in affordable housing funds
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Housing’s board of commissioners approved the allocation of $3.5 million in Housing Trust Fund resources for two projects that will...
Trump says he’s signed spending bill, reversing veto threat
NEW YORK – President Donald Trump said he has signed a spending bill, the Fiscal Year 2018 Omnibus Appropriations Act, funding the federal government...



















