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The Rhode Island Department of Corrections is taking new steps to combat the growing problem of synthetic drugs inside its Adult Correctional Institutions.
Under a new state law, dorm resident advisers and housing staff must be trained to administer the overdose-reversing drugs.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — House Speaker Joe Shekarchi on Thursday revealed a dozen bills aimed at taking on Rhode Island’s housing crisis, a top issue lawmakers have focused on in recent ...
The affordable housing crisis has plagued Cambridge for more than a decade. As councilors have failed to reach a consensus on how to address the issue, upzoning proposals consistently occupy ...
Last November, Rhode Island voters approved a $120 million housing bond to address the housing crisis that could create a public developer to build more affordable housing. As much as $10 million ...
The Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank and Department of Housing awarded $2.8 million to five communities as part of efforts to tackle the ongoing housing crisis.
Rhode Island tackles housing shortage by making it easier to add rental units on to homes – theday.com: New London and southeastern Connecticut News, Sports, Business, Entertainment and Video ...
A recently passed $120 million housing bond will go before voters in November. It’s worth celebrating while also nowhere near enough, writes the director of the Rhode Island office of LISC.
Rhode Island, the "missing middle" housing bill would have placed three and four-unit buildings under the residential building code instead of the more stringent commercial code.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island House Speaker Joseph Shekarchi is pushing a package of more than a dozen bills aimed at addressing the state's ongoing housing crisis One proposal would give ...
We crunched numbers and traced the history of housing in Rhode Island to lay out how we got to this point.