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Jun 20
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Residences at Riverside Square Recognized with a Smart Growth Award

By Featured - Our Stories & Voices, Our Stories & Voices

One Neighborhood Builder’s  Residences at Riverside Square has been awarded a Smart Growth Award by Grow Smart RI, an organization committed to leading and engaging Rhode Islanders in advancing neighborhood revitalization, environmental stewardship, and economic opportunity. Each year, the Smart Growth Awards recognize developments, individuals, and policies that best address community revitalization, access to affordable housing, improved public health, greener building practices, and advancement of social, racial, and economic justice.

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Jun 13
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Celebrating NeighborWorks Week: Creating Homes, Building America Through Equitable Community Development

By Featured - Our Stories & Voices, Our Stories & Voices

This NeighborWorks week, we’re celebrating the collective impact of NeighborWorks America’s member organizations and our shared commitment to building strong, vibrant communities. As a proud member of the NeighborWorks network, One Neighborhood Builders is thrilled to embrace this year’s theme of Creating Homes, Building America. To us, this theme is about more than just increasing access to housing in our communities. It’s about strengthening neighborhoods through thoughtful investments rooted in equity and bolstering economic resilience. At One Neighborhood Builders, we embody this theme through our work every day. From pre-development to completion, our housing developments reflect our commitment to the…

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Jun 03
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ABC6: Officials break ground on affordable housing development in Central Falls

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Local elected officials and affordable-housing development leaders on Friday formally broke ground on One Neighborhood Builders’ $26 million Broad Street Homes project.

CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. (WLNE) — Builders and politicians celebrated the groundbreaking a new affordable housing development in Central Falls Friday morning.

“Broad Street Homes,” located next to Central Falls City Hall, will be built on the site of an old Dunkin Donuts.

The project will cost developers One Neighborhood Builders upwards of $26 million to build, which was secured partly through a federal earmark.

When completed, the four-story building will include 46 housing units for low-income families in Central Falls.

“We need housing. Every time my office gets calls from individuals, they’re looking for housing. We know that the price right now of rent is almost unaffordable, so we have to make sure that we continue to build more housing,” Lieutenant Governor Sabina Matos said

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Jun 03
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PBN: Officials break ground on Broad Street Homes project in Central Falls

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Local elected officials and affordable-housing development leaders on Friday formally broke ground on One Neighborhood Builders’ $26 million Broad Street Homes project.

The project, which is the first development by One Neighborhood Builders within the city, includes a new four-story building at 524 Broad St. and reusing a former police station and courthouse building at 511 Broad St. In total, the project will create 46 affordable housing units to low-income households earning less than 60% of the area median income.

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May 30
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 One Neighborhood Builders Breaks Ground on Affordable Housing Development in Central Falls 

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  May 30, 2025  CENTRAL FALLS, RI – One Neighborhood Builders (ONB), one of the state’s leading nonprofit affordable housing developers and community development corporations, held a groundbreaking today alongside elected, appointed, and housing leaders to celebrate the start of construction of Broad Street Homes, an affordable housing development in Central Falls.  Broad Street Homes is ONB’s first development in the city of Central Falls, a more than $26 million investment in the city. Upon completion, the development will provide 46 units of housing to low-income households earning not more than 60% AMI; In Central Falls, this equates…

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May 22
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Fresh Fridays: A Special In-Person Conversation on Advancing Health Equity and Economic Mobility

By Fresh Fridays

This month’s Fresh Fridays featured a special in-person, collaborative panel discussion facilitated by Candace Moore from Race Forward. The conversation focused on current and future efforts to advance health equity and economic mobility in Central Providence through the lens of the newly updated Central Providence Roadmap. Moore was joined by panelists Eloi Rodas, Maria Gomes, and Shelby Mack.

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May 01
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Planting the Seeds for a Greener Providence

By Our Stories & Voices

The Central Providence Opportunities: A Health Equity Zone (CPO-HEZ) and the Providence Neighborhood Planting Program (PNPP) teamed up to host a Community Tree Forum at the Olneyville Resilience Hub on April 5, 2025. Community members from across the neighborhoods within the 02909 ZIP code came together to dream up the future of an urban forest and plant the seeds for a greener, healthier neighborhood.  The meeting began with an overview of the PVD Tree Plan, a comprehensive strategic vision and action plan for creating a more equitable urban forest in Providence.   Attendees were provided stickers and asked to place…

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