Speaker Shekarchi introduces bill to smooth the way for future Pallet Shelter projects
"These pallet shelters are clearly not a hotel," said the Speaker. "They need to have their own specialized fire safety code."
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It dramatically adds to housing dev costs and folks wonder why it costs so much…RI Statewide Planning produced a great study on projected potable water needs planning.ri.gov/sites/g/file...
After traffic congestion and cost of schooling are the alarms of water & sewer capacity. All legit and require scrutiny, but shld the need to expand W/S infrastructure to accommodate urgently needed housing be carried by housing developers?
I had the rewarding opportunity to spend a day at Community First in January ‘24. There is much to learn from their model
- from TX’s very flexible land use policies that enabled this to be possible, to the org’s culture rooted in compassion and mutual benefit. Have a listen…
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must persist.
The Warm Center in Westerly is trying mightily to address emergency needs; please support them. Community Solutions’s Built for Zero movement is working with small and large cities to re-engineer broken systems and end homelessness; please learn more.
I want to live in a world where homelessness is not understood as a personal failure as opposed to a systems failure; where the experience is not a prolonged state of being rather than a brief lapse where a person can quickly be resettled. But we don't live in anything close to that world. So we..
