Providence's Newest Affordable Housing Complex Ready for Tenants

It took seven years and $21 million, but a large affordable housing complex in the west end of Providence is finally ready for occupancy.

Gov. Lincoln Chafee joined with other dignitaries to celebrate the completion with a ribbon cutting.  The apartments are scattered in 23 buildings. Rhode Island Housing director Richard Godfrey says the buildings were in pretty rough shape.

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Part of the Phoenix affordable housing complex in Providence's west end.

"They were all vacant. Some of them were burned out. All boarded," says Godfrey. "It was a very, very distressed neighborhood."

The project is known as the Phoenix Apartments to symbolize the re-birth of ruins.

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