PROVIDENCE – In 2023, a team of Providence City Councilors formed the Housing Crisis Task Force to research the city’s root causes of housing insecurity, rising evictions and homelessness.

The task force met with residents, housing advocates, legal experts and other stakeholders, to inform the 47-page report it released this September.

The report recommends both immediate and long-term measures to strengthen housing security, while underscoring the urgency of the crisis. Nearly half of Providence renters and over a third of homeowners are housing-cost burdened, meaning they devote more than 30% of their income to housing .

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