Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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On Lively, RI, taxpayers have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into planned affordable housing projects with little to show for it. But now some say Providence leads the housing pack, in part by buying city property and providing it for developers. Moderator Jim Hummel examines the changing housing outlook with Boston Globe columnist Dan McGowan and political contributor Pablo Rodriguez.

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