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• The Newport Daily News: Middletown Town Council to review elderly housing options

  It’s not a question of if more affordable housing for seniors is coming to Middletown, but when. That is the message from Town Council President Robert Sylvia, who said it is time for the community to do more to help its elderly population.

• Newport Daily News: Middletown council split on senior housing plan

  The members of the Town Council agree there is a need for affordable senior housing units, but are torn on how to achieve it.

• Newport Daily News: Senior housing talks get started in Middletown

  For years, Middletown officials have talked about bringing affordable municipal senior housing to the community. On Monday afternoon, the town took its initial step to making that goal a reality with the first business meeting of the Middletown Senior Housing Committee. A subgroup of the Town Council, the body was created recently as a way for the town to study the issue and try to create some senior housing. Unlike its neighbors in Newport and Portsmouth, Middletown doesn’t have senior housing of its own.

• Newport Daily News: Middletown council continues search for senior affordable housing plan

  Nearly 290 respondents to a recent survey reported they did not have enough money for rent/mortgage/real estate taxes at some point during the last 12 months.

• Newport Daily News: Can Newport target housing to the ‘young’?

  The City Council’s attempt to give preference to young adults for apartments at the former Cranston-Calvert School ran into legal objections at last week’s council meeting.

• Newport Daily News: BankNewport gets affordable housing grant

  Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston awarded more than $57.5 million in grants, loans, and interest-rate subsidies to support 37 affordable housing initiatives in New England and beyond, including a grant to BankNewport in Middletown.