Little Compton Hoping for Elderly Housing

In case you missed Projo's article, I've given you the link. Here is one from the Sakonnet Times also. Church Community Housing out of Newport is trying to get funding to purchase the "Country Harvest" restaurant and turn it into the only subsidized, affordable housing in town. This site sits on the Sakonnet River (West Main Rd.) & would be made into 25 one bedroom units for the elderly.

"Town Council chairman Robert Mushen, noted that of the 1,516 year-round residential units in town, only two are deemed affordable. The town has a long way to go to comply with state requirements that 10 percent of its housing be affordable. No other community in Rhode Island has less affordable housing than Little Compton."

I've blogged on this before. Little C. has no sewer system, so any development there is expensive. Church Community has a signed sales agreement conditional that it gets funding from HUD. There are architectural drawings which show a new two story building replacing the current one story. The housing has the support of the newsly formed Little Compton Housing Trust.

Go Little C! Let's hope that the funding plan works out unlike the Middletown Anchorage Plan which never materialized.