Policy leaders in Providence at odds over how to tackle rent affordability

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — Rising rent costs and low vacancy rates leave Providence in a housing crisis, but policy leaders are at odds over how to solve it.

According to city council leaders, a rent stabilization ordinance could be introduced in the city this year.

“It’s one of those public policies that sounds really good,” said The Providence Foundation Executive Director David Salvatore…

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