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Rising housing costs put older Rhode Islanders’ health at risk

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At 82, Roberta Rabinovitz had no place to go.  A widow, she had lost both her daughters to cancer. She’d lived with one and then the other, nursing them until their deaths. Then she moved in with her brother in Florida and helped care for him, until he also died.  “My doctor said, ‘Roberta, you […]

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RI House GOP leader raps ‘culture of secrecy’ on cost for pallet shelter

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Rhode Island House GOP Leader Michael Chippendale says Gov. Dan McKee’s administration is stonewalling the release of public records explaining why the Echo Village pallet shelter in Providence wound up costing close to $5 million. Chippendale used an image of a Winnebago on social media last month to make a point — how pallet shelters […]

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‘It’s a lot harder.’ Unhoused people, advocates respond to West Warwick’s ban on camping

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Work for Rivka Reynolds started to look different a few months ago. As a peer recovery specialist for Thrive Behavioral Health in West Warwick, she used to spend her days visiting the homeless people she supports in their encampments. Now, she spends a lot more time driving around, looking for people.  “Before we had an […]

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City of Woonsocket faces civil rights lawsuit for alleged police misconduct 

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The Rhode Island chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is suing the City of Woonsocket and a former police detective for wrongfully arresting and incarcerating a homeless man for a 2022 break-in.  The lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court in Providence alleges that Mack Blackie’s civil rights were violated when he was twice arrested […]

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