{"id":117,"date":"2018-06-21T09:03:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T09:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2018\/?page_id=117"},"modified":"2026-04-28T19:47:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:47:54","slug":"local-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2018\/resources\/local-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Providence Journal: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.providencejournal.com\/news\/20180415\/eviction-rate-in-ri-leads-region\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eviction rate in RI leads the region<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brown Daily Herald: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.browndailyherald.com\/2018\/03\/08\/local-advocacy-group-pushes-rent-control\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Local Advocacy Group pushes rent control<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Signs of Providence: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/signsofprovidence\/posts\/530041400726320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trottier eviction<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">RIFuture: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rifuture.org\/dare-smashes-pinatas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">DARE <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">smashes pi\u00f1atas in protest against high rents, evictions and public subsidies for luxury housing<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Providence Journal: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.providencejournal.com\/news\/20170714\/evicted-in-ri-when-theres-no-place-like-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Evicted in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">RI: when there\u2019s no place like home<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brown Daily Herald: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.browndailyherald.com\/2018\/02\/27\/students-lobby-housing-legislation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students Lobby for Housing Legislation<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Providence Business News: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rihousing.com\/filelibrary\/Five-Questions-With-Barbara-Fields_PBN_12-14-17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Five Questions with Barbara Fields<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brown Daily Herald: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.browndailyherald.com\/2017\/12\/07\/pichardo-20-know-homeless-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Do you know where the homeless people are?<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">GoLocalProv: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.golocalprov.com\/news\/aclu-sues-to-block-eviction-of-homeless-sex-offenders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ACLU sues to block eviction of homeless sex offenders<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Providence Journal: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.providencejournal.com\/news\/20170713\/how-eviction-works\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How eviction works<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eviction Lab: <a href=\"https:\/\/evictionlab.org\/map\/#\/2016?geography=counties&amp;bounds=-77.264,39.023,-61.541,44.829&amp;locations=44,-71.588,41.695\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rhode Island Report<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Providence Journal: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.providencejournal.com\/news\/20180319\/ri-bill-seeks-to-end-section-8-stigma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">R.I. bill seeks to end Section 8 stigma<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"parent":33,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-117","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117\/revisions\/266"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}