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First-ever Providence Public Housing murals pay homage to immigrants

First-ever Providence Public Housing murals pay homage to immigrants Alexa Gagosz © Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff Angela AGONZA Gonzalez has a newly installed set of murals located at the Hartford Park housing development. This public art project is one of several taking place throughout the city as part of the Department of Art, Culture + Tourism (ACT) Public Art Residency, an initiative of the Departments Public Art Program. The six-month residency program places artists in city facilities to engage directly with residents and staff. PROVIDENCE Providence artist Angela “AGONZA” Gonzalez was told that long ago, immigrants built the structures of the Hartford Park public housing projects. They built them strong, she said, and they filled the community that stretches through the western edge of the city.

A Tiny Public Housing Authority Offered Residents the Vaccine Could Others Follow Suit?

The reasons for the outbreak are layered, says Michael Fine, the city’s health policy advisor: Central Falls is one of the poorest cities in the state; between 15 and 25 percent of its residents are undocumented immigrants; many of them work in factories and meat-packing plants that have been deemed essential during the various waves of business shutdowns. Now that Covid-19 vaccines are becoming available, the state has had to figure out how to get them to its most vulnerable residents. In Central Falls, it turned to the public housing authority. In the last week of December, as The Providence Journal reported, Central Falls became the first city in Rhode Island to offer the vaccine publicly, and the Central Falls Housing Authority was the first organization to administer it.On the last Wednesday of the year, the housing authority offered the vaccine exclusively to its own residents and staff, and to people with housing choice vouchers. Relative to other vaccine rollouts around t

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