Members of the Block Island Housing Board went over their grant application to Rhode Island Housing with consultant Seth Sokoloff of Barbara Sokoloff Associates just a week before the deadline
The New Shoreham Town Council was to conduct a public hearing on a new ordinance proposed and written by resident and Block Island Housing Board member Chris Warfel on March
The Town Council held a workshop on Wednesday, May 4 on the subject of housing. The need for more affordable and attainable housing has been an issue for decades, and while the town and the not-for-profit Block Island Economic Development Foundation.
The Planning Board also took up the subject of affordable and attainable housing at its meeting on Monday, May 9. As opposed to the workshop the Town Council held, this meeting mainly focused on specific language housing advocate Chris Warfel had.
Members of the New Shoreham Town Council, along with Housing Board Chair Cindy Pappas, Town Manager Maryanne Crawford and advocate Alicia Miro, attended a hearing before the Rhode Island House Committee on Municipal Government and Housing on April.