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Rhode Island's housing crisis is at a breaking point. How did we get here? Patrick Anderson, Providence Journal. Updated Sun, February 11, 2024 at 9:57 PM UTC. 16 min read.
Rhode Island remains at the bottom in housing production when population is factored in. The 1,374 units approved last year are 125 for every 100,000 residents.
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More than 30 years ago, Rhode Island passed a law requiring 10% of the housing supply in each city and town be "affordable." Decades later, only six communities have hit that benchmark. Sen ...
Rhode Island has far fewer full-time employees focused on housing and homelessness than peer states. Homelessness grew in Rhode Island by nearly 50 percent from 2020 to 2022.
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A recently passed $120 million housing bond will go before voters in November. It’s worth celebrating while also nowhere near enough, writes the director of the Rhode Island office of LISC.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — With homelessness in Rhode Island at record highs, advocates are making persistent calls for urgent solutions to the growing crisis. Experts detailed the severity of ...
“When I announced my commitment to tackling Rhode Island’s housing crisis, I commented that our housing shortage had been decades in the making and would take a sustained effort, over the ...
We crunched numbers and traced the history of housing in Rhode Island to lay out how we got to this point. Rhode Island's housing crisis is at a breaking point. How did we get here?