Breaking Down the Ballot: What to Know About
the $120 Million Housing Bond Referendum

Voters will decide whether to increase the availability of housing, support community revitalization
and promote home ownership.

LISC
Share
LISC
Breaking Down the Ballot: What to Know About
the $120 Million Housing Bond Referendum
Copy

On Nov. 5, Rhode Island voters will have the opportunity to weigh in on five statewide ballot questions.

Question No. 3 asks voters to approve a $120 million bond to “increase the availability of housing, support community revitalization, and promote home ownership.”

Jay O’Grady, the senior program officer for the Rhode Island branch of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), a nonprofit that supports community development initiatives, spoke with Luis Hernandez of The Public’s Radio.

This interview was conducted by The Public’s Radio. You can read the story here.

Once thought lost to history, the powerful handwritten declaration by New England Baptist clergy resurfaces—shedding new light on religious resistance to slavery and a pivotal moment in the church’s past
Imagine if you could be the greatest in the world at anything, but you’d have to sell your soul to do it. That’s the story of the show “¡Que Diablos! Fausto,” a bilingual production at Teatro en El Verano
Rhode Island had been poised to become a hub for offshore wind, but the new domestic policy bill debated overnight in the U.S. House could put that work in jeopardy
Twenty states, including RI, sued the Trump administration after federal health officials shared sensitive data about Medicaid recipients