Interesting piece in The Atlantic Cities about the upcoming Arcade apartments with pictures and a model of the micro-units. Developer Evan Granoff has transformed the upper two floors into 48 apartments, thirty-eight of which are micro — between 225 and 450 square feet. (Complete floor plans can be seen at The Arcade Providence website.) Atlantic …
(7.16) The Providence Preservation Society and the College Hill Neighborhood Association will hold an informational meeting Monday regarding Gilbane’s plan to build a four-story apartment building (housing about 200 grad students) at 257 Thayer Street (between Meeting and Euclid Streets). PPS and CHNA have formed a steering committee and will report their findings and conduct …
Head over to Greater City: Providence and join a discussion of Gilbane’s proposed apartment building facing on Thayer Street (between Euclid, Brooks and Meeting Streets). While obviously aimed at the Brown University population, the apartments will be available to the general public. The plan includes an interior courtyard with a fireplace. You can see here …
As recently covered on the front page of the Providence Journal, in the Providence Business News, and on NBC 10, there are currently 282 more homeless individuals in Rhode Island than there are shelter beds to accommodate them. In other words, 282 people will be without a place to sleep this winter – many of …
Rhode Island has been ranked 2nd in the country (only behind Hawaii) with the largest increase in unaffordability of housing over the last decade according to a new report released last week by the National Low Income Housing Coalition. The report shows the current economic crisis has continued to push affordable rental housing out of …
It’s just been announced that Governor Carcieri and Senator Reed will hold a press conference Wednesday with RI Housing and the RI Office of Housing and Community Development, the heroes of the day, regarding the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. This plan will provide $19.6 million to acquire and redevelop foreclosed and abandoned properties, down payments for first-time …
Another RNC, another “March for Our Lives.” (Hard to believe that four years ago, this was kind of how I spent my summer vacation.) The Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) has completed two extremely successful and nonviolent protests during the Republican National Convention, one in 2004 in NYC, and in 2000 in Philadelphia. …
Rhode Island will receive $10.4 million dollars in federal funding from HUD programs to help with affordable housing….and yet, I still don’t qualify under HUD standards, so what about the rest of us?
I’ve been apartment searching for the past 2 years, trying to find a nicer apartment in a better area for less money. My situation isn’t bad. I have a charming 2 br near a golf course for only $600 a month. The problem is the stench – that and the traffic. Oh, and the newly …
Matt Jerzyk’s post about the insularity of the Rhode Island affordable housing community has generated 60 or so comments. His concerns were spurred by the rejection of funding for an innovative and important project on Providence’s South Side: The bad news is that renewable energy innovation is not coming to the urban core. For …
From the Housing Network: Housing and Homeless programs are hit hard in the Governor’s proposed supplemental budget that ends in June 2008 and next year’s budget that ends in June 2009.Proposed cuts in the supplemental budget include the elimination of the Neighborhood Opportunities program (NOP); $26 million from RI Housing which will eliminate their program …