Housing is affordable if the rent is low, hope that helps

That is affordable (public) housing on the water. The point is that it is on the water and surrounded by some of the most expensive housing in the world and is still affordable

Benefit street used to be a poor neighborhood before it became upscale as it is now. This is our city and we should be able to demand and create affordable housing anywhere we want.

Vinnie

Huge L. Millions lost in tax revenue. No new businesses stemming from this development. No jobs. NIMBY scum wins again.

The city just lost many millions. Instead of getting tons of property taxes the City gets nothing and the homeowners will have to make up the difference. Oh well. Not like there’s a housing shortage, pension deficit and educational crisis. I’m sure they have plenty of time to wait another 5 years so NIMBYs can prevent housing again.

Yes because nowhere screams affordable like Manhattan. 🫠🫠🫠

Without dramatically increasing the amount of housing as fast as we can, there's no such thing as affordable housing.

>is not where affordable housing is found in any city.

That doesn't have to be true and also isn't true in many places

See: a little city you may be familiar with https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_E._Smith_Houses. If NYC can do it, Providence can do it).

Wild. For what it's worth, I had a friend who was going to sell his house here to move abroad and he had a sub-1k mortgage. He was going to list it. In the end, they rented it out still making plans to leave indefinitely and after a few months, realized the plan was to come back after a year to their old house. So, my advice is always to test out the waters before making a very expensive and permanent change. Glad you're open to renting instead.

Affordable housing is important, but downtown Providence on the river overlooking the most expensive stretch of Providence along Benefit Street….is not where affordable housing is found in any city.

It’s such a bad argument. It’s not this building OR affordable housing.

Um it’s nothing but an L.

The demand is there and it’s an area that can have significant economic development….but hardly anywhere to live. Not a recipe to attract business.

Good. So anyway, what's for dinner tonight?

Good riddance. Hopefully they can plan something that a) is in scale with the development of the surrounding area and b) provides actually affordable housing

Goes without saying. For every New Yorker.

From an opportunity perspective. With future growth and future opportunity in mind, would you say this is a loss or win for Providence?

Good - PVD just saved alot of money

Ack take your upvote Dad.

Looks like it was derived from a videogame no cap.

Oh no! Anyway

development is slower than a snails pace here

Fane and everyone else making money off this must be totally heartbroken. Everyone else...not so much

Hopefully the next residential building there has a better possibility of actually happening instead of stringing people along.

No pictures or description are necessary, especially if they are also POC, could be inflammatory

This whole proposal has been baffling on a level I didn’t think was possible