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• NLIHC: Leading National Orgs in Education, Civil Rights, Healthcare and More Join in a Campaign to Increase Affordable Housing Across America

  The Opportunity Starts at Home campaign launched today at the National Low Income Housing Coalition’s (NLIHC’s) Housing Policy Forum in Washington, DC. With financial support from the Funders for Housing and Opportunity, NLIHC launched this new multi-sector affordable homes campaign together with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Children’s HealthWatch, Make Room, and the National Alliance to End Homelessness, and with a steering committee that includes Catholic Charities USA, Children’s Defense Fund, Community Catalyst, Food Research and Action Center, NAACP, National Alliance on Mental Illness, National Association of Community Health Centers, National Education Association, and UnidosUS.

• Governor's Office: Governor McKee, RIHousing Announce Historic $80M Investment for Affordable Housing Across Rhode Island

  Governor McKee, RIHousing Announce Historic $80M Investment for Affordable Housing Across Rhode Island

• Office of Senator Jack Reed: After Delivering Federal Affordable Housing Funds, Reed Calls for Action to Help Build More Homes That RIers Can Afford

  After Delivering Federal Affordable Housing Funds, Reed Calls for Action to Help Build More Homes That RIers Can Afford

• 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.

• PBN: The state needs a stronger affordable-housing law, says R.I. Housing. Executive Director Barbara Fields isn’t waiting for it to be changed.

  R.I. Housing and Mortgage Finance Corp. is celebrating its 45th anniversary this year in a position of financial strength, says Executive Director Barbara Fields. It has created programs to assist first-time homeowners, expanded its servicing of mortgages to include those generated by MaineHousing and emerged from the Great Recession with a surplus of financial assets.

• WhatsUpNewp: HousingWorks Fact Book provides data as conversation shifts to economic benefits of affordable housing

  Businesses and communities benefit when there’s adequate affordable housing for moderate- and low-income individuals and families, a message that affordable housing advocates believe will begin to get those who typically have ignored the issue, to begin taking it seriously.