Title 45, Title 45 and Cities

(a) The Rhode Island housing and mortgage finance corporation established pursuant to § 42-55-4 (the “corporation”) shall maintain an online database (“database”) of low-income housing tax credit developments that are designated only for households at or below sixty percent (60%)…

(a) The Rhode Island housing and mortgage finance corporation established pursuant to § 42-55-4 (the “corporation”) shall provide the annual reports pursuant to subsections (b) and (c) of this section to the speaker of the house, the president of the senate, the division of state…

(a) On or before October 1, 2025, every municipality in the state shall adopt and implement one electronic permitting platform established pursuant to § 23-27.3-108.2 to utilize for all development applications under this chapter. For purposes of this section, “electronic permitt…

The general assembly finds and declares that there exists an acute shortage of affordable, accessible, safe, and sanitary housing for its citizens of low and moderate income, both individuals and families; that it is imperative that action is taken immediately to assure the avail…

The following words, wherever used in this chapter, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context, have the following meanings: (1) “Adjustment(s)” means a request or requests by the applicant to seek relief from the literal use and dimensional requirements of the m…

(a) In calculating the number of year-round housing units towards meeting the goals of an excess of ten percent (10%) of the year-round housing units consistent with local needs required pursuant to § 45-53-4, rental units in multi-family housing built after June 30, 2022, may be…

(a) There is hereby established an approved monitoring agent program (the “program”). Effective July 1, 2022, the Rhode Island housing resources commission (the “commission”) established pursuant to chapter 128 of title 42 shall appoint and oversee approved monitoring agents as p…

(a) Any applicant proposing to build low- or moderate-income housing may submit to the local review board a single application for a comprehensive permit to build that housing in lieu of separate applications to the applicable local boards. This procedure is only available for pr…

(a) Effective January 1, 2024, as a replacement to § 45-53-5. A decision of a local review board may be appealed by the applicant or an aggrieved party, as defined by § 45-24-31, to the superior court for the county in which the property is situated. The appeal shall be taken wit…

(a) Effective until January 1, 2024, the state housing appeals board shall have the powers to: (i) Adopt, amend, and repeal rules and regulations that are consistent with this chapter and are necessary to implement the requirements of §§ 45-53-5, 45-53-6, and 45-53-7; (ii) Receiv…

(a)(1) Effective until January 1, 2024, there shall be within the state a housing appeals board consisting of nine (9) voting members and three (3) alternates as follows: one voting member who shall be from the Center for Justice Rhode Island; one voting member who shall be from …

If any provision of this chapter or of any rule, regulation, or determination made under this chapter, or its application to any person, agency, or circumstances, is held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of the chapter, rule, regulation, or determinatio…

(a) There is hereby created an oversight commission to be known as “The Housing Act of 2013 Implementation Oversight Commission” to consist of fifteen (15) members: chair of house corporations or designee; chair of senate housing and municipal government or designee; two (2) memb…