Residents of condemned apartment complex will not be homeless
Harrison Tuttle, Executive Director of the Black Lives Matter RI PAC, Representative Brandon Potter (Democrat, District 16, Cranston) and residents gathered outside an apartment complex in Cranston on Thursday to make the case for continued emergency services for the 39 families evicted from the building on Tuesday.
On Tuesday a walkway on the second floor of the apartment complex collapsed, prompting the eviction of all the families. Though first floor residents may be able to return soon, second floor residents may be inconvenienced for months, said Cranston Mayor Kenneth Hopkins (Republican). Hopkins arranged for residents to be sheltered at a Providence hotel owned by a friend of his for $4000 a day. But on Thursday morning Hopkins announced that the hotel stay was over and suggested residents find shelter with friends or relatives.
This prompted the BLM RI PAC and Representative Potter to hold the press conference, with residents, outside the apartment complex.
“This press conference is to advocate for the residents to have a place to stay while being pretty much homeless at this point,” said Tuttle. “This is an issue of not being the state’s or city’s fault, but of people not having a place to live. In the midst of a housing crisis right now, it is critical that the city or whoever be able to step up to put these people in houses for as long as it takes.”
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