New Poll Finds Ocean State Voters Concerned About Affordable Housing

Rhode Island House Speaker Joseph Shekarchi, D-Warwick, is looking for solutions to the state’s affordable housing crisis. (Colleen Cronin/ecoRI News)

PROVIDENCE — Most Rhode Island voters say there isn’t enough affordable housing in their community, and they would support some land-use policies to change that, according to a new poll from Neighbors Welcome! Rhode Island.

Neighbors Welcome! is a relatively new housing advocacy group, whose mission, according to its website, “is to build more homes in Rhode Island so that our friends, family, and neighbors can afford to live in the Ocean State.”…

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