Once a Middle Class Neighborhood in Providence, Homes Are Now Priced at $1M

GoLocalProv News Team

The Mount Hope section of Providence, the area bordered by North Main Street, Rochambeau Avenue, Hope Street, and Olney Avenue, has been a middle-class neighborhood. For more than one hundred years, the area — especially the Camp Street area — was one of the oldest Black neighborhoods in America.

Now, the area is in a blistering transformation, and much of it is being driven by housing prices.

A listing on Lancaster Street exemplifies the drastic change…

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