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Employee housing proposal sparks thoughts of mill villages

New Homeowner Assistance Fund (HAF-RI) Now Open for Applicants

With remote work trending upward, South County real estate market is hotter than ever

Narragansett Town Planner Michael J. DeLuca, speaking for eight communities in Washington County, urged a legislative commission Wednesday to change state law so that more low-cost housing could be counted as affordable housing.

At a public hearing Tuesday, members of the Town Council approved an application for a $310,000 Community Development Block Grant for a water system for the Richmond Ridge affordable housing project.

The 2018 RI Kids Count Factbook, released on Monday, is fascinating. It provides a window into the lives of Rhode Island’s children, and it also offers some peripheral data that contextualizes how the state’s youngest residents are raised.

Several Rhode Island towns are facing negative impacts after being notified in late July that many of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) applications for local programs and agencies will not receive the funding they typically see. Locally, six social services programs applied for a total of $136,702 to fund several projects in the area, and after the meeting in late July, East Greenwich, along with many other towns across the state, were notified that none of their applications from the Plan Year 2016 will receive funding.