The City of Providence Department of Housing & Human Services shall seek to improve the lives and living conditions of the City’s low- and moderate-income residents. The Department shall support community-based strategies that build strong, vibrant, and stable neighborhoods, enhance opportunity and public health, and provide quality affordable housing throughout the City.
Housing and Community Development Division
The Housing and Community Development Division develops plans for the disbursement of federal community development funding to foster affordable housing, prevent homelessness, and deliver basic needs services, disburses funds to qualified projects, and monitors those projects for compliance with federal regulations and local goals and objectives.
Programs
Human Services Division
The Human Services Division serves as the coordinating body for the City’s health living policies and initiatives. The Division implements policy, environmental, and system changes to support community health in Providence’s neighborhoods. It empowers residents with education and resources to make positive, informed choices that support healthy behaviors. The Division focuses on closing the health gap through increased access to healthy food, physical activity, maternal health services, behavioral health supports, and other health-related programming. The Division continues to expand activities and approaches to reflect a broader understanding of behavioral health and now oversees significant programs and funding addressing the current opioid crisis and other emerging behavioral health issues.
Programs
Fiscal Division
The Fiscal Division manages all of the varied funding that flows through the Department and ensures a high degree of fiscal control and compliance.
Senior Services Division
The Senior Services Division enhances quality of life for senior residents in Providence through advocacy and specialized programming to encourage socialization and wellbeing.
Key Documents
- Click for the 2020-2024 Consolidated Plan and the Citizen Participation Plan.
- An updated Regional Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing was completed in 2020.
- Click here for the CDBG Manual.
- Click here for the HOME Manual.
- For more information on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity Programs, click here.
- Providence Vaping Compliance Check Summary Data
News & Announcements
2024-2025 City of Providence Annual Action Plan
On June 25, 2024, the City of Providence Department of Housing & Human Services, Division of Housing & Community Development will hold a Public Hearing on the City’s 2024-2025 Annual Action Plan.
Programs covered include:
Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)
HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME)
Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS (HOPWA)
Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG).
Public Comment Period and Process:
The 2024-2025 Action Plan and Amendment is available for public review and comment weekdays between the hours of 8:30am and 4:00pm at the Division of Housing of Community Development (444 Westminster Street, Suite 3A, Providence) or on the City of Providence website: https://www.providenceri.gov/housing-human-services/. A statutory, 30-day public comment period will begin on June 15, 2024 and end on July 15, 2024.
Citizens wishing to submit written comments during the public review and comment period may mail them to:
City of Providence Department of Housing & Human Services
Attention: Emily Freedman, Director
444 Westminster Street, Suite 3A
Providence, RI 02903
Or email to: efreedman@providenceri.gov.
Opportunity for public comment is also available at a Public Hearing from 5-6PM on June 25, 2024 at 444 Westminster Street, 1st Floor, Providence, RI 02903. The location for this meeting is handicap accessible and translation or hearing-impaired services are available upon request. Please contact 401-680-8400 at least 48 hours in advance to request such services.
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