ProJo: Providence advocates for poor protest hiring of housing consultant
By Madeleine List
Journal Staff Writer
Posted Aug 15, 2018 at 9:09 PM
Updated Aug 15, 2018 at 9:36 PM
“It wasn't the tenants' fault that they had to be put out and displaced,” said Burgison, a volunteer with Direct Action for Rights and Equality (DARE), a Providence organization that advocates for low-income residents.
The group organized a demonstration Wednesday in front of Rhode Island Housing on Washington Street to protest the agency's hiring of a Chicago-based consulting firm called Camiros to manage public engagement on the topic of redevelopment at Barbara Jordan II.
Journal Staff Writer
Posted Aug 15, 2018 at 9:09 PM
Updated Aug 15, 2018 at 9:36 PM
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — About two years ago, Roline Burgison helped one of the last remaining tenants at the Barbara Jordan II affordable housing development in South Providence find a new home.
The woman Burgison helped was one of hundreds of residents who left due to uninhabitable conditions at the 74-unit development, which was recently foreclosed upon after years of neglect by the property owner.“It wasn't the tenants' fault that they had to be put out and displaced,” said Burgison, a volunteer with Direct Action for Rights and Equality (DARE), a Providence organization that advocates for low-income residents.
The group organized a demonstration Wednesday in front of Rhode Island Housing on Washington Street to protest the agency's hiring of a Chicago-based consulting firm called Camiros to manage public engagement on the topic of redevelopment at Barbara Jordan II.
Courtesy of Providence Journal
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