Low Income/Subsidized Private Rental Housing | Olney Village
19 Bowdoin St, Providence, RI 02909
Eligibility
Income-Based
Required documents
Proof of Income
Hours
Mon-Fri 9:00AM-5:00PM
401-383-5763
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Main Phone
401-351-8719
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One Neighborhood Builders
Application process
Call or Visit Website for Information
Fees
Varies
Service area
Statewide
The Olney Village development is concentrated around the William D’Abate Elementary School in Olneyville, where 12 formerly foreclosed properties and several vacant lots were transformed into 40 affordable homes and three community spaces for area nonprofits. The entire development is spread throughout 16 buildings along six residential blocks.
Location: Scattered site on Appleton St., Bowdoin St., Delaine St., Florence St., Julian St., Kossuth St., Manton Ave., Pope St., and Putnam St. in Olneyville
Housing Type: Affordable family rentals & commercial space
Completed: 2013
Units: 40 affordable rentals and 3 commercial spaces
The commercial spaces currently house a clubhouse for the Manton Avenue Project, which teaches playwriting skills to high-school aged neighborhood residents and a permanent home for the Food Pantry, which provides emergency food services to more than 7,000 families per month.
Last assured
02/24/2022
What's Here
Providing organization
One Neighborhood Builders
Exists to build a safe, healthy and stable community through the empowerment of Olneyville residents. Primary function is to facilitate the creation and revitalization of affordable housing. To preserve, restore and create affordable housing opportunities and to promote community economic development fostering a healthy, economically vibrant and diverse community.
ONE Neighborhood Builders is a nonprofit community development organization dedicated to revitalizing Providence neighborhoods. Olneyville Housing Corporation, founded in 1988, changed its name to ONE Neighborhood Builders when it merged with Community Works Rhode Island in 2015. To date, we have developed 375 affordable apartments and over 115 for-sale homes, as well as more than 50,000 square feet of commercial and community space. These spaces include many properties that were formerly foreclosed and blighted in addition to historic buildings that ONE|NB works to preserve, saving landmarks while creating vibrant spaces to work and live.