Building Sustainable Communities
Date Published: 03/05/2009
Author: Joe Vaughan, Rhode Island LISC
LISC launches Sustainable Communities strategy in Rhode Island
Olneyville Housing Corporation's Riverside Gateway.(Photo:Olneyville Housing Corp.)Looking out from the steps of the Hope Street Family Resource Center in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, you see a bustling playground, well-maintained homes, and neighborhood youth painting a mural or on their way to after-school tutoring. The building behind you, a stately old schoolhouse, has been renovated to house Connecting for Children and Families and 110 affordable child-care slots.
The old schoolhouse in this mill town has witnessed many changes over the years: manufacturing that came and went, buildings that were abandoned, rising crime, pervasive hopelessness. Today the Hope Street Family Resource Center is the literal and figurative crown jewel of a community's revitalization. (Continued[+]...)
> This article was originally published on the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's website.
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