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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

(WJAR) — From multiple resignations to the homelessness crisis, the Rhode Island Department of Housing has been the subject of criticism since it was created three years ago. The new Secretary ...

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 ...

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?