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2022 was a year of expansion, innovation, and impact for ONE Neighborhood Builders.
■ We developed 17 new units of housing in Olneyville, including eight units on Bowdoin Street built using modular construction and nine units on Delaine Street, resulting from the rehabilitation of blighted and vacant buildings.
■ We expanded our housing work outside of Providence, renovating and preserving the affordability of 36 “naturally occurring affordable housing” units at Sutton Place in East Providence.
■ We launched the community-controlled Central Providence Community Loan Fund in partnership with Providence Revolving Fund, which has awarded more than $100,000 in low-interest loans to small businesses and nonprofits in the 02908 and 02909 zip codes.
■ We expanded our reach into the community, providing additional resources and community health workers to guide people in need of resources like rental assistance, SNAP, and to help to identify and avert homelessness.
■ We expanded our free community WiFi network, ONE|NB Connects, and released a case study that captures our process and lessons learned in doing so. The network now offers free WiFi to nearly 2,600 users.
■ We co-hosted OV Fest: Una Dia de Nuestro Rio with the Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council. The event is an annual community party celebrating culture, music, family, and togetherness at a neighborhood park that had a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19.
■ We joined with other organizations to advocate that the state designate $500 million of federal American Rescue Plan Act funds to expand affordable housing. The legislature ultimately allocated $250 million.
■ We launched the Nine Neighborhood Fund, which will allow Central Providence residents to decide how to spend $1 million to improve health and well-being in their communities in a process called participatory budgeting.
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