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• ProJo: My Turn: Laura Jaworski: R.I.’s forgotten, targeted, vulnerable people

  Megan Smith was driving to work on Providence’s heavily traveled Broad Street one fall afternoon when she saw something in the road. It took her a second or two to realize that “something” was a man.

• ProJo: My Turn: Laura Calenda: Most homeless are working poor

  The headline on Mark Patinkin’s May 23 column labeled Judy McGill, the 53-year-old woman who has been living with her cats beneath a bridge near the Providence Place mall for the last several months, “The face of homelessness.” But she is not really the “face” of the problem.

• Brown Daily Herald: Providence’s abandoned property problem persists

  From 2016 to April 2019, Providence identified 860 vacant and abandoned properties. In 2017, there were 747 such properties.

• ProJo: My Turn: Brent Runyon: Let’s preserve R.I.’s State House grounds

  The prospect of new buildings on the State House lawn is nearly unthinkable. Of foremost importance to all Rhode Islanders is the sanctity of the State House and its setting. In addition to the building’s unrivaled architecture, the open space around it and its setting atop a hill are defining characteristics that make ours the most beautiful State House in America.

• ProJo: Editorial: Growing economy brings new challenge

  With more young adults and people with college degrees looking to live in Providence, rents in the city have been rising. What might seem surprising, however, is that the most dramatic increases have not come in well-to-do areas, but mostly in a swath of lower-income neighborhoods. As a result, some of the people who live in those areas are being displaced, and a new study warns that as the demand for apartments grows, so could the number of displacements.

• ProJo: My Turn: Bill Hatfield: Building a healthier Rhode Island

  Success and opportunity — no matter how you define it — start with healthy and stable housing. For 125 years, Crossroads Rhode Island has been helping Rhode Island’s most vulnerable residents.