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Joined the faculty of the Department of Politics and International Relations at Rutgers University and the Claremont Colleges, in 1995 Representative Speakman She is a member of the board of the Washington Internship Institute. RI, having also served on the State Housing Appeals Board from 2010 to 2016. Interested in housing policy and is a member of the advisory board for HousingWorks President for the final eight of those years. She served on the Barrington Town Council from 2002 through 2016, and was its Before moving to Warren, she lived in Barrington, where Representative Speakman was a member of the Planning Board prior to herĮlection to the House. RI’s Smart Growth Leadership Award for her work on housing and the environment. Requiring the Department of Health to set standards

Process of affordable housing more efficient.Ī strong advocate for environmental protection and climate change resiliency,Īnd has been pushing for laws to prevent exposure to cancer-linked Was the sponsor of two 2022 laws resulting from the commission’s work, both Leading a special legislative commission, created through legislation she State’s critical shortage of affordable housing. Which will make an estimated $4 million available annually to help address the Representative Speakman is also a delegate to theĪmendment to the state budget to establish Rhode Island’s first permanent funding Resources Committee and the House Health and Human Services Committee. She is also a member of the House Environment and Natural Housing Committee. She serves on the House Oversight Committee and chairs its Aging and Senior Services Subcommittee. She is the second vice chair of the Municipal Government and Speakman was first elected to represent District 68 in Warren and Bristol in State Rep.Representative June Speakman Second Vice Chair, House Municipal Government and Housing Committee Member, House Oversight Committee Member, House Environment and Natural Resources Committee Member, House Health and Human Services Committee ​.16, in time for the start of the 2022 legislative session.Īlong with Speakman and Williams, House Speaker Joe Shekarchi appointed the following members to the other seats on the commission: Its final report and recommendations are due by Dec. The housing commission is expected to hold its first meeting in July. Rhode Island needs to work quickly to address our critical housing shortage.” “I’m very eager to get to work with the members of this commission. “It’s absolutely critical to both the safety and wellbeing of our people and the health of our economy that we look at what must change to meet our affordable housing needs,” Speakman said in a statement. Anastasia Williams, D-Providence, will serve as its vice chair. June Speakman, a Warren Democrat who sponsored the resolution creating the commission, was appointed Wednesday as its chair. House of Representatives voted in March to create a 17-member special legislative commission that will undertake “a comprehensive study” of the Low and Moderate Income Housing Act, including town-by-town data, existing economic and housing strategic plans, and what barriers exist to reaching the 10% mark. Yet only 1,329 building permits for new housing units were issued in Rhode Island in 2020, well below the roughly 3,500 units per year that were found to be needed in a 2016 HousingWorks RI study.

The Rhode Island Association of Realtors reported the median single-family house sold for a record $349,000 in April, up 18% from a year earlier, and there was barely a one-month supply of inventory on the market. The issue has been gaining more attention with the post-pandemic surge in home prices. A map shows how close each Rhode Island municipality was to the state’s 10% affordable housing goal as of 2020.

Less than 1% of housing was classified as affordable in Little Compton and Scituate. Only six out of 39 communities - Burrillville, Central Falls, Newport, New Shoreham, Providence and Woonsocket - met the 10% threshold as of last year, according to the 2020 HousingWorks RI FactBook, with East Providence set to join the list once a new development is completed. The Low and Moderate Income Housing Act, first enacted in 1991, call for at least 10% of the housing supply in Rhode Island municipalities to be classified as “affordable.”

(WPRI) - With house prices soaring across Rhode Island and new construction still depressed, lawmakers are set to begin a review of the state’s key affordable housing law.