Three non-profit groups get affordable housing funds
PROVIDENCE, R.I. Three Rhode Island non-profit agencies are getting federal housing assistance grants to help the disabled and elderly residents with very low incomes. Coastal Housing Corporation in Portsmouth is getting almost 700,000 dollars for a project that will have five apartments for very low income elderly people.
In Smithfield, Valley Affordable Housing Corporation is getting more than six million dollars to construct 45 one-bedroom units for the very low income elderly.
In Providence, The Providence Center will receive more than one million dollars to buy and refurbish ten one-bedroom units for low-income people with crhonic mental illness.
The money comes from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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