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Homeless in RI: Rinse & Renew Shower Program Returns to Newport’s MLK Center April 14
The Rinse & Renew Shower Program returns to Newport’s MLK Center on April 14, now offered weekly with expanded services including healthcare support and haircuts for those experiencing homelessness.
Read MoreHomeless in RI: Housing First is a Human Right, a Personal Reflection – Taylor Ellis
By Taylor Ellis, commentary contributor “Housing First” solves the unhoused human rights issue if implemented. It is simply based on providing people housing and simultaneously, quality social service programs. It has been carried out in a very limited way over the last two decades. Recently, Governor McKee’s new Executive Office of Housing has published its…
Read MoreHomeless in RI: Weather Emergency Days Ahead – Shelters, Warming Centers, Resources
RHODE ISLAND EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF HOUSING HIGHLIGHTS AVAILABLE RESOURCES AHEAD OF EXPECTED INCLEMENT WEATHER With inclement weather expected this weekend and early next week, the Executive Office of Housing is urging Rhode Islanders in need to access available resources and is announcing the activation of four emergency pop-up sites to provide additional safe, warm places…
Read MoreHomeless in RI: Death at Echo Village and Rob’s Long Journey Home – Bernie Beaudreau
By Bernie Beaudreau, contributing writer I met Rob and his brother Mike last July. They were homeless together, taking care of each other. Rob was not in great physical health, with an ailing heart condition, and Mike with health challenges of his own. After losing their Oakland Beach apartment, they spent some of Mike’s disability…
Read MoreHomeless in RI: Severe Weather, Deaths Prompt more Funds to Continue 3 Shelter Programs
The state will appropriate $233,350 for three winter shelter programs as severe cold, snow and the announcement of four recent deaths demand access to safe, warm and accessible shelter. In the announcement it was noted that emergency shelters are at high capacity for longer periods of time than usual and funds originally allocated, based on…
Read MoreHomeless in RI: Imagine There’s No Bottom – Rev. Duane Clinker
by Rev. Duane Clinker, for RINewsToday The freezing happens slowly at first. It is night and you have not been able to find a shelter. Your tent and meager belongings were destroyed a few days ago by the authorities, so tonight you walk the now deserted streets alone. Stores are already closed; buses have stopped…
Read MoreHomeless in RI: Elderly Mom & Son Freeze to Death, Exposing System Failure – Vincent Marzullo
by Vincent Marzullo, contributing writer The heartbreaking deaths of 75-year-old Irina Kozav and her 49-year-old son, Stanislaw, found frozen inside their car in The Miriam hospital parking lot on the East Side of Providence, are a stark and painful reminder of a crisis too many in our region and across the nation still fail to…
Read MoreHomeless in RI: Updated, Frozen to Death – Nancy Krahe, Peter Nightingale. Emergency Shelters
by Nancy Krahe, LICSW & Peter Nightingale, Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of Rhode Island An Open Letter to Governor McKee and Rhode Island General Assembly Dear Governor McKee and members of the Rhode Island General Assembly: In the early morning hours of Wednesday, January 28, 2026, a man was found frozen to death on…
Read MoreHomeless in RI: Emergency Pop-Up Sites Open and Regional Street Sheets List Services
RHODE ISLAND EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF HOUSING ANNOUNCES EMERGENCY POP-UP SITES OPEN THIS WEEK With low temperatures expected through the week, the Executive Office of Housing is announcing the activation of all four emergency winter pop-up sites to provide immediate, safe, and warm overnight shelter for Rhode Islanders in need. Emergency pop-up sites are temporary locations…
Read MoreHomeless in RI: Stories from an East Providence Shelter during the Snowstorm – Bernie Beaudreau
by Bernie Beaudreau, community advocate, contributing writer Mayor Roberto DaSilva has again, as he did in January last year, opened the Robert Rock Senior Center in East Providence for part of last week and continuing through Sunday, February 1, pending availability of volunteers (2 per shift needed). I volunteered for two-night shifts early in the…
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