Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PROVIDENCE − Between the time Rhode Island nonprofit House of Hope first sought to build a temporary homeless shelter village and ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. House of Hope Executive Director Laura Jaworski speaks at the opening ceremony for ECHO Village on Feb. 11, 2025. Seated left to ...
Rhode Island's first temporary homeless shelter village is set to remain on Victor Street in Providence for at least another year. The State Properties Committee on Tuesday, Oct. 28, extended the ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — The state’s first pallet shelter community is getting closer to opening. When asked Tuesday when ECHO Village would finally open, Rhode Island Housing Secretary Deborah ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — As frigid temperatures grip the region, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley is calling the regulatory delays for the city’s pallet shelter village “unrealistic,” warning that the ...
PROVIDENCE – While the Echo Village Pallet shelters could open by the end of February after long delays attributed to state regulators and applying fire code to a new type of building, House Speaker K ...
'We never made it back home’: Partner remembers Rhode Island diner owner killed in crash A Rhode Island diner owner is being remembered for his kindness and devotion to family after he was killed in a ...
Governor McKee should use his authority to open the shelters immediately to get people off the streets, says Providence City Councilor Justin Roias Four winters. That’s how long unhoused Providence ...
Echo Village, the temporary pallet housing shelter in Providence, has officially been open for one year. The pallet houses on Victor St. got off to a rough start, with the project over budget, and the ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — As lawmakers push for the empty Pallet shelters to open by whatever means necessary, the state's department of housing said it could be weeks before they announce an opening ...
The 45 small, one-room structures on state-owned land behind the Foxy Lady strip club have been in the works since 2020. Homelessness in Rhode Island has more than doubled over that time. PROVIDENCE — ...
The real cost of pallet shelters and the bigger picture of affordable housing. This week on A Lively Experiment, the frustrating search for transparency about the cost of the Providence pallet ...