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• The Block Island Times: Applications being accepted for church apartments

  The process to apply for one of the four apartments currently under construction on the third floor of the Harbor Church has opened.

• Block Island Times: Certificate of Occupancy issued for apartments

  For the past 17 months, members of the Harbor Church and many, many members of the Block Island community have worked very hard to convert the third floor of the Harbor Church into four year-round, affordable apartments.

• The Block Island Times: Church apartments receive HDC blessing

  The Harbor Church’s affordable rental housing project is progressing towards its January 2019 goal for occupancy. Church Trustee Tony Pappas, who is spearheading the $450,000 project, was granted unanimous final approval (4-0) for adding a deck and stairs on the building’s west exterior, and removing an east side window, by the Historic District Commission on March 26. Pappas needs to obtain a building permit from Building Official Marc Tillson to commence with the work.

• The Block Island Times: Church’s affordable housing project funded

  “It’s an idea whose time has come.” That’s what Tony Pappas said about the four one-bedroom affordable rental apartments that will be built at the Harbor Church for a price tag of about $450,000 and be ready for occupancy in January of 2019. Pappas spoke with The Block Island Times about the project, his brainchild, after a public hearing before the Zoning Board of Review on Tuesday night.

• The Block Island Times: New affordable apartment units proposed

  One nearing the starting line, one in the works. With most of the approvals for the Cherry Hill Lane development lined up, the Block Island Housing Board turned to a new phase of that project, and learned about another planned affordable apartment project at its most recent meeting.

• Block Island Times: Expanding eligibility for affordable housing

  The Block Island Housing Board is seeking to expand the affordable housing applicant pool on Block Island. In order to do so the board needs to do something that might seem counterintuitive; raising the island’s median income bracket. Increasing the medium income limit could provide more people on the island with the opportunity to apply for affordable housing.