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Four nonprofits have banded together to push forward a 160-unit affordable apartment complex, but will the state fund it?

One Neighborhood Builders teamed up with Crossroads RI, Foster Forward, and Family Service of Rhode Island to purchase the Taunton Avenue property.

The collaborative – Crossroads, One Neighborhood Builders, Foster Forward and Family Service – want the state to invest in a $60 million plan to convert a long-vacant nursing home into 160 affordable housing units.

We aren’t just Public Radio, we are The Public’s Radio. Hear us on WNPN 89.3FM across Rhode Island and the Southcoast of Massachusetts.

Coverage of the housing and homelessness crisis by the staff of Globe Rhode Island.

Most-read stories include fallout over a GOP House member asking a colleague, "Are you a pedophile?"; and is coffee milk on its way out in RI schools?

Lisa Guillette takes a practical approach to helping foster kids, providing mentors, clothes, housing and a jobs program replicated in other states.

She is the comeback kid in 2022. GoLocal’s New Editor, Kate Nagle, faced pain and trauma.

2022 was a year of cautious optimism in Rhode Island. The state, and the world, began to reemerge in earnest following a difficult two years of the pandemic.

It sometimes feels like Lisa Guillette is everywhere.