A 43-unit affordable housing development on two separate sites in Charlestown and Richmond has been approved by the Rhode Island Housing Board of Commissioners.
The $12.8 million project, to be known as Shannock Falls, will comprise 11 units at Shannock Village, located at 1639 Shannock Road in Charlestown, and 32 units at Richmond Ridge, located on West Shannock Road (no street number has been assigned yet). The Shannock Village site will include rehabbing a single family home into a duplex and constructing nine new units. All of the units at Richmond Ridge will be new construction. Approval was granted May 18.