In 2006, voters in Rhode Island overwhelmingly passed a $50 million housing bond to build affordable homes in the Ocean State. Building Homes Rhode Island is the state program created to disburse $12.5 million a year over four years. This video documents the progress made through Building Homes Rhode Island during its first three years.

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Affordable housing development is going green and is helping to strengthen the state’s economy according to HousingWorks RI’s 2010 Fact Book on housing. The 2010 Fact Book examines the current state and future opportunities in the development of affordable homes in Rhode Island. Affordable homes are being built with green features and technologies that are also contributing to the growth of the green economy and jobs in the building trades.

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On Monday, August 16, Crossroads Rhode Island broke ground for Kingstown Crossings, an affordable rental development in North Kingstown. The new affordable homes are being developed on a vacant parcel of land adjacent to former Navy housing that has provided homes to formerly homeless families.

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Join HousingWorks RI as we unveil the 2010 Fact Book and kickoff a discussion on the future of affordable homes in Rhode Island.

This breakfast event will feature a panel discussion about the connection between the development of affordable homes in Rhode Island and the emerging green economy in the state.

Panelists include:

• Madeline Fraser Cook, Program Director, LISC Green Development Center

• Donald Powers, President/Principal, Donald Powers Architects

• Keith Stokes, Executive Director, Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation

• Laurie White, President, Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce

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The Center for Housing Policy just launched a new online toolkit that highlights residential energy efficiency solutions available for families and policymakers.

The toolkit offers strategies to improve the efficiency of existing single-family and multifamily homes, with a special focus on low- and moderate-income households.

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Join HousingWorks RI as we unveil the 2010 Fact Book and kickoff a discussion on the future of affordable homes in Rhode Island.

This event will take place on Tuesday, August 31 from
8:00 - 9:15 am at the Crowne Plaza, 801 Greenwich Avenue in Warwick, RI.

For more information, email events@HousingWorksRI.org, call (401) 274-4564 (x4177) 

Register online for this event.

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HousingWorks RI is pleased to welcome The Apeiron Institute for Sustainable Living (Apeiron) as the newest member of our coalition. Apeiron's mission is to transform Rhode Island into a sustainable state where the needs of the present are met without compromising the needs of future generations.

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On Wednesday, June 16, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse hosted a group of nearly 100 state and local leaders from Rhode Island, including HousingWorks RI's Research and Policy Associate Juan Gallo, to discuss the challenges and opportunities in energy and environmental policy facing our state, our nation, and our planet.

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BRISTOL — Neighbors of a Bristol businessman hoping to build a 118-foot-tall wind turbine in his back yard have come out in force to oppose the plan. Joseph Coelho, the owner of Safe-Way Auto Sales at 61 Gooding Ave., has asked the Bristol Zoning Board of Review for permission to install the turbine. The board held a lengthy public hearing Monday night but failed to make a decision after the meeting ran too long.

Mr. Coelho was the first applicant on the meeting’s agenda, but the public hearing lasted so long, the board postponed the issue until its July meeting.

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