Someone with no other place to go sleeps in front of a closed restaurant on Broadway in Newport at 9:30 a.m. on May 2, 2025. (Photo by Janine L. Weisman/Rhode Island Current)
For the first time in half a dozen years, the number of unhoused people in Rhode Island is on the decline.
But the good news comes with a caveat: More people were without shelter when volunteers from the Rhode Island Coalition to End Homelessness conducted its annual winter census for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development all across the state on a frigid night in January…