Homeless in RI: Spring follows winter… Armory’s last days; lack of diversity in planning “appalling”
Spring follows winter as surely as day follows night. TODAY House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi will host a news conference TODAY to announce his latest package of legislation to address Rhode Island’s housing crisis. The news conference will be held Thursday, March 2, at 3:00 p.m. in the House Lounge on the second floor of the State House. Speaker Shekarchi will be joined by Rep. June S. Speakman, chair of the Special Legislative Commission to Study the Low and Moderate Income Housing Act; Thomas E. Deller, chair of the Special Legislative Commission to Study the Entire Area of Land Use, Preservation, Development, Housing, Environment, and Regulation; members of both commissions, legislators, housing advocates and developers. It will be televised live on Capitol Television, which can be seen on Cox Communications, channels 15 and 61 for high definition; i3Broadband (Formerly Full Channel) on channel 15; and Verizon, on channel 34 It will al...