If You Are Looking for Immediate Shelter
- For a list of homeless emergency shelters and transitional programs in Rhode Island, click here.
- Crossroads Rhode Island. "Help for the journey called life." State's largest homeless services provider. Helpline phone number: (401) 351-6500 or (800) 367-2700, click here.
If You Are Looking for Houses or Apartments
- For HUD's list of public housing agencies in RI, click here.
- For links to public housing agencies in RI that are online, click here.
- List of RI apartment buildings that are subsidized, by community. There are 20,000 altogether, click here.
- List of RI nonprofit affordable housing developers, click.
- For Rhode Island Housing, the state’s principal housing agency, click here.
- To search for a subsidized apartment in RI, for elderly, family and disabled, click here.
- For house and rental listings advertised through the State-Wide Multiple Listing Service, click here.
- "Affordable Housing Online." A commercial site searchable by town. Database of ads for market-rate apartments coupled with a statewide directory of Section 8 affordable housing, click here.
- For the Guide to Rhode Island Housing Organizations Online, click here.
- For information on the Rhode Island Community Action Agency Network (RICAAN) and the community action programs (CAPs) in Rhode Island, click here.
Useful Tools
- Buying your first home? Download these free, valuable home buying guides on borrowing, choosing a mortgage, establishing credit. From the Fannie Mae Foundation, click here.
- Homebuyer classes and individual counseling, offered at convenient locations throughout the state, through the Homeownership Connection, click here.
- To calculate how much mortgage you can afford, try the Mortgage Professor's Website, run by a Wharton School expert and author. A huge array of free online calculators, click here.
- What it takes to qualify as a first-time homebuyer through the West Elmwood Housing Development Corporation (Providence), click here.
