Reclaim RI

Press

SOCIAL HOUSING

• The Boston Globe, “We need to think outside the box to find housing solutions for Rhode Islanders,” May 15, 2024
• The Boston Globe, “Advocates unveil bills to create R.I. public housing developer and land bank,” March 29, 2024
• Providence Journal, “RI unions throw support behind new public housing. Could a ‘house flipper’ tax also be coming?” March 28, 2024
• Providence Journal, Reclaim Rhode Island looks for ‘housing justice,’” March 26, 2024
• Providence Journal, “These researchers will look at how Rhode Island could create a state housing developer,” January 16, 2024
• Providence Journal, “Could RI act as a housing developer? The state is commissioning a study to look into it,” August 23, 2023
• The Boston Globe, “Rhode Island needs a public developer of housing,” March 23, 2023
• Providence Journal, “Political Scene: How a Maryland public housing program could influence Rhode Island,” January 23, 2023
• Providence Journal, “'Just getting more and more dire': Senate panel weighs 'bold' affordable housing proposal,” June 1, 2022
• Providence Journal, “RI could be the first state to tackle the housing crisis by acting as a developer,” May 16, 2022
• The Brown Daily Herald, “Advocacy group outlines path forward for housing development public option,” November 28, 2022
• Vox, “How state governments are reimagining American public housing,” August 4, 2022
• Lever News, “Tackling The Housing Crisis With Public Power,” August 15, 2022
• Boston Globe, “Senate Bill would create State department of housing,” May 13, 2022

TENANT RIGHTS

• Providence Journal, “Rallying for renter rights, Reclaim RI pushes legislators for action during housing crisis,” May 24, 2024
• Providence Journal, “‘People are really suffering’: Proposal to require ‘just case’ for eviction stirs debate,” May 3, 2024
• Providence Journal, “What would a Tenant Bill of Rights look like? Here’s what lawmakers are proposing,” March 20, 2024
• Providence Journal, “Everyone wants something from Rhode Island’s part-time lawmakers. Here’s the list,” February 5, 2024
• Nonprofit Quarterly, “Organizing to Abolish Rental Application Fees in Rhode Island,” August 8, 2023
• Providence Journal, “RI House votes to ban rental application fees,” April 20, 2023

TENANT ORGANIZING

• The Boston Globe, “Will tenants unions make a difference in Rhode Island’s housing crisis?” April 19, 2024
• The Boston Globe, “Campaign contributions from controversial landlord now center of Cranston, R.I., mayoral race,” April 5, 2024
• Providence Journal, “Mice, frozen pipes, flooded basements: Tenants in once-condemned Cranston complex are unionizing,” April 2, 2024
• The Boston Globe, “‘I have a moat…but this is no castle’: R.I. renters battle flooding, pests, problematic landlord,” April 2, 2024
• Steve Ahlquist, “The Elmwood Tenant Union is demanding safe and affordable housing,” March 30, 2024
• Providence Journal, “Their landlord threatened eviction when these tenants organized. Then, they won a victory in court.” February 6, 2024
• The Boston Globe, “Tenants threatened with eviction after they spoke to R.I. housing group, lawsuit claims,” December 29, 2023. 
• The Public’s Radio, “Tenant group sues landlord, alleging retaliation against organizing efforts,” December 29, 2023. 
• Providence Journal, “RI tenants are suing their landlord over retaliation. Here’s what they allege,” December 29, 2023. 
• Providence Journal, “Pioneer tenants organized against their landlord. Now they say they're being pushed out,” February 2, 2023
• Providence Journal, “A Central Falls couple's twins were struggling. Then a blood test showed high lead levels,” December 15, 2022 
• Providence Journal, “Tenants band together against RI landlord as they face deplorable conditions,” September 30, 2022
• Channel 10 WJAR, “Tenants of West Warwick apartments protest for better living conditions,” October 2, 2022 
• Uprise RI, “Problematic landlord called out for retaliation against unionization efforts” February 6, 2023
• Uprise RI, “One of Rhode Island’s top ‘slumlords’ receives a Sunday morning wake up call,”  January 16, 2023
• Uprise RI, “One of Rhode Island’s worst landlords gets a Sunday wake up call” October 3, 2022

CANNABIS

• Providence Journal, “$1.1M sits in an equity fund to help minorities start pot businesses. None has been spent.” March 13, 2024
• Providence Journal, “RI’s first pot co-op hopes to light the way toward social equity for cannabis businesses,” June 2, 2023
• Providence Journal, “With legal marijuana in RI, 'tens of thousands' of past convictions may disappear,” May 18, 2022 
• Boston Globe, “Legislators vote to legalize recreational marijuana in Rhode Island,” May 24, 2022
• Boston Globe “Revised R.I. marijuana bill would make expungements automatic” May 17, 2022
• Uprise RI, “Rhode Island legalizes recreational cannabis,” May 26, 2022 
• Uprise RI, “Amended cannabis legalization bills introduced and on path to passage,” May 17, 2022
• Providence Journal, “'Social equity' concerns emerge in talks on legalizing recreational pot,” May 7, 2021 
• Uprise RI, “Advocates push for expungement of criminal records as General Assembly moves towards legalized marijuana” March 16, 2022
• Rhode Island Monthly, “Is Rhode Island Ready to Light Up?,” July 7, 2022
• Grownin “Rhode Island adult use legalization presented to legislature” March 4, 2022

ELECTORAL

• The College Hill Independent*, “People, Power, and the Political Machine: An illuminating conversation with Rep. Cherie Cruz in the wake of RI’s primaries,” September 20, 2024
• Providence Journal, “Political Scene: From teen mom to a felony charge to populist victory in Pawtucket” October 3, 2022
• Providence Journal, “Providence's Sanchez brothers credit Mexican American roots in their big wins for the left,” September 19, 2022
• Providence Journal, “Progressive push left sputters against establishment Democrats in RI primary” September 14, 2022
• Boston Globe, “Providence mayoral candidate Cuervo calls for public housing developer and rent stabilization,” August 15, 2022 
• Uprise RI, “Gonzalo Cuervo’s housing plan earns him progressive endorsements, sets high bar for other mayoral candidates,” August 15, 2022
• Providence Journal, “Political Scene: Challenge to RI House speaker shows how Democrats are tugged to the left” August 8, 2022
• The Intercept, “Rhode Island’s Progressive Wave Was Four Years in the Making,” September 11, 2020
• The Real News Network, “Sanders Supporters Strike Surprise Blow Against Rhode Island’s Democratic Establishment” September 14, 2020 

   

TAX THE RICH

• Uprise RI, “Advocates press Speaker Shekarchi to increase taxes on the one percent” June 15, 2021
• Providence Journal, “Advocates urge tax hike for RI's top earners at State House rally” November 21, 2020

MISCELLANEOUS

• Providence Journal, “Dan Denvir helped to spotlight a landlord’s dilapidated properties. Then the AG sued.” December 21, 2023
• Uprise RI, “Rep. Morales introduces bill to fund lead service line replacements at no cost to property owners or tenants” February 7, 2023
• EcoRI News, “House Bill Introduced to Fund Lead Service Line Replacements,” February 6, 2023
• Uprise RI, “RI coalition urges Senator Reed to support Sanders’ Yemen War Powers resolution,” December 13, 2022
• Providence Journal, “State House debate: Is $3.89 minimum wage enough for tipped workers?,” March 22, 2022