To the Editor:
The need for affordable senior housing has been on the Middletown Town Council docket since April 2017. Early in 2018, the Town Council met with a local non-profit provider as well as HousingWorksRI to discuss options.
Subsequently, the Town Council formed a Senior Housing Sub-Committee which, after multiple meetings, finally recommended in December 2018 that the Town Council hire a consultant to advise the town about developing senior housing units.
At the March 4, 2019 meeting, after reviewing the proposed Feasibility Study, Town Council voted not to authorize it, based on consensus that $22,500 to compile information in 4 months that was already available was not a good use of funds, not to mention the anticipated 2 to 3 years for the project to actually get underway,
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