Rockstar 100%.

Cheaper if you go early! I paid $7 bc I arrived right as Freeplay opened.

This post is getting so much hate but I honestly love it. The interstate completely ripped apart downtown Providence, and cars are too dominant as they are in every city in the US, although in Providence this is less an issue. The real issue with cars in downtown Providence is the space they take up with their parking lots.

Also replace the buses with trams, Plus it needs more Intercity trains that come often. There's no reason not to have a commuter train to Woonsocket for example.

What is a bee brick?

8.5 million on bike lanes is kinda crazy tbh. Can we just start a fund to pay for light rail and every time we want to spend money on something idiotic, Bank the money instead

I woulda said nirva, then smiley, the Cuervo. He wasn’t the best but he wasn’t the worst. Why Cuervo didn’t shave his face I will never understand. The guy seemed a little nonchalant

Lol why is Downtown one of the worst parts of the city

No, yay for more $1,800 a month housing in fox point that gets freed up by kids with rich parents

When it's cold outside and we want to get out of the house, my husband and I buy $1 fountain drinks from Cumbies, spike them with $1 nips, and drive to Providence Place to walk around and eat a mall pretzel. We don't even really walk into any of the stores (except sometimes the hot sauce store for samples) but we have a stupidly good time doing it and it cost like, $6 total.

Seems like they just want a process to be able to seal an eviction and not by default. I'd imagine you'd have to prove a suitable reason. When I was younger, we got evicted because we told the landlord that a ceiling tile fell out because it rained and there was a leak. Landlord took us to court for eviction and tricked my mom into not going.

Someone who has one eviction in their record isn’t finding difficulty finding housing, as there are thousands of people on court connect with several evictions… who are presently renting.

But a landlord should have the night to see that the person they’re thinking of allowing to live in their property for a fee has a history of being an issue.

I would never rent to someone who’s had numerous evictions, because they’re obviously a problem. If someone wants to take that liability on, power to them but it certainly wouldn’t be me.

Sometimes those having difficulty finding housing is because of their own doing.

Make it the states problem, not someone looking to rent out their first floor to cover their mortgage.

What is preventing ppl from having an attorney in eviction proceedings is the cost. PVD has just trialed a program for assigned counsel in these cases and it makes a big difference. Also, ppl get evicted for many reasons, some of which will be outside their control (e.g. lost a job). Should that impact their ability to find housing in perpetuity?

That’s the smell of Rhode Island

biblically accurate pvd birds just like in roger williams's diary

Idk why all the downvotes this is exactly what will happen. The city will give these slumlords time to make repairs, which they will. The places will be nicer, then the tenants will get rent increase letters to fair market value. And the tenant will leave

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They fired up the Providence Municipal Burn Pit this weekend. It’ll be running till the fall.

City water is tested often. It is very unusual to have lead in pipes coming into the house. Pipes leaving the house don’t matter. You can easily have your house water tested. I would be very skeptical

Lead poisoning can absolutely come from water.

I still have a hard time considering anything AI as art tbh. The process of feeding AI prompts instead of going through any kind of creative process just doesn't do it for me.

Those birds are... something

Less poisoning is not caused by water. You have city water. It is only caused by kids eating paint

There are a lot of landlords like you - I am fortunate to have one, and I know it and I want to be a good tenant in part for that reason. Their retirement is this house I live in. A big problem is absentee landlords and the extraction of increasing rents from unmaintained properties. It’s the assholes being slumlords at scale who are the problem, and it’s difficult to come up with a way to regulate housing without putting such a burden on small landlords that doesn’t ultimately benefit the better capitalized, better lawyered-up corporate types.

I sympathize in part because this was an idea my mom and I had shared for her own retirement, in a three family with a tenant occupying one unit. But the market over the last few years has made that look less feasible in part because of big corporate firms buying up three family and other small rental properties and driving up the prices of what’s left. The same actors who are profiting from substandard housing are profiting from jacked up rents.