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.

Under a new state law, dorm resident advisers and housing staff must be trained to administer the overdose-reversing drugs.

(WJAR) — Rhode Island's housing crisis is now driving another dilemma—an increase in surrendered and abandoned pets. Animal ...

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.

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.

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

“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 ...

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 ...

Housing safety net is hanging by a thread. Soaring home prices and rents, combined with meager inventory of housing options, have made it harder to move to Rhode Island, move within Rhode Island ...