Monthly Meeting

with special guest Rep. June Speakman

In 2021, [Rep. Speakman] championed an amendment to the state budget to establish Rhode Island’s first permanent funding stream for affordable housing, which will make an estimated $4 million available annually to help address the state’s critical shortage of affordable housing. Since 2021, she has been leading a special legislative commission, created through legislation she sponsored, to study the Rhode Island Low and Moderate Income Housing Act. She was the sponsor of two 2022 laws resulting from the commission’s work, both aimed at making the development of process of affordable housing more efficient.