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Fresh Fridays: Examining Commercial & Residential Tenant Unions

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This month’s Fresh Fridays featured an insightful conversation on the future of community development, economic mobility, and affordable housing in Rhode Island amid a shifting federal landscape. In a one-on-one conversation, United Way of Rhode Island President & CEO, Cortney Nicolato, interviewed One Neighborhood Builders’ new President & CEO, Peter Chapman, to discuss the key issues shaping their organization’s work.

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Fresh Fridays: A Conversation with Cortney Nicolato and Peter Chapman

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This month’s Fresh Fridays featured an insightful conversation on the future of community development, economic mobility, and affordable housing in Rhode Island amid a shifting federal landscape. In a one-on-one conversation, United Way of Rhode Island President & CEO, Cortney Nicolato, interviewed One Neighborhood Builders’ new President & CEO, Peter Chapman, to discuss the key issues shaping their organization’s work.

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Fresh Fridays: Community Wealth Building

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This month, Fresh Fridays considered how shared ownership of resources help make local communities more economically equitable. Community wealth building is a model for communities to directly own and control their resources. Recognizing that many common economic development models do not work for many communities, community wealth building incorporates worker cooperatives, community land trusts, housing cooperatives, public banking, and other tools to strengthen local economies. 

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Fresh Fridays: Adaptive Reuse and Affordable Housing Development

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This month’s Fresh Friday featured a group of panelists discussing the important topic of adaptive reuse and affordable housing development. Throughout New England and the US, there are publicly- and privately-owned buildings that no longer serve their original use – mills, churches, school buildings, and much more. As communities work to address the housing crisis, they are increasingly looking to these existing assets as potential affordable housing.  

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