A tent is seen off Route 10 in Providence in early October 2025. (Photo by Christopher Shea/Rhode Island Current)
For the first time, state housing officials will take an active role in gathering data for the annual census of Rhode Island’s unhoused population likely in late January.
The Executive Office of Housing will be the lead coordinator of volunteers who fan out across the state to conduct the yearly Point in Time Count, a responsibility handled by the Rhode Island Coalition to End Homelessness for the past 16 years…