In an effort to address Rhode Island’s housing crisis, Rhode Island House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi (D-Warwick) announced a 14-bill package that includes legislation to eliminate rental application ...

Activists and state legislators are considering supportive housing — which combines affordable housing with wraparound social services — as a means of addressing Rhode Island’s homelessness crisis and ...

Rhode Island,United States Joe Shekarchi politics Affordable Housing Workforce Housing (WJAR) — Top lawmakers are working to help fix the state's housing crisis.

COMMENTARY The solution to Rhode Island’s housing crisis: Welcome more neighbors The housing crisis is affecting everyone, from new college grads to aging empty nesters to employers looking to hire.

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.

“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 ...

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.

For more than a year, Rhode Island has been weighing whether to become the first state in the country to create its own public development arm.. Over that time, the state has created a new Housing ...

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.

Last November, Rhode Island voters approved a $120 million housing bond to address the housing crisis that could create a public developer to build more affordable housing.. As much as $10 million ...

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?

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.