This month’s Fresh Friday featured practitioners who are advancing code enforcement reforms in Rhode Island and a discussion that considered strategies that can make code enforcement more equitable and effective at improving housing quality and stability.
ONE Neighborhood Buillders’ Lucy Berman facilitated the panel, which included:
- Libby Benton, Senior Counsel, Center for Community Progress
- Cherie Cruz, RI State Representative (Pawtucket) and Tenant Organizer, Reclaim RI
- DeeAnn Guo, Community Organizer, Childhood Lead Action Project
- James Moore III, Director, Department of Inspections and Standards, City of Providence
- Carrie Zaslow, Executive Director, Providence Revolving Fund
Previous Fresh Fridays Sessions:
- Fresh Fridays: The Cost of Building Affordable Housing
- Fresh Fridays: Transportation And Equitable Communities
- Fresh Fridays: Zoning & Affordable Housing Development
- Fresh Fridays: Community Organizing in Providence
- Fresh Fridays: Eviction prevention strategies in affordable housing
- Fresh Fridays: From Ideas to Action through Participatory Budgeting