Published Thu May 25 2023 09:50:43 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) by Ian Donnis On a recent Thursday, the heads of four nonprofit agencies gathered outside a blighted former nursing home on Taunton Avenue in East Providence. They came together to make the case for building a 160-unit apartment complex on a three-acre site that includes two vacant lots. The housing would serve a mix of different needs -- the formerly unhoused, young people aging out of foster care, and low-to-moderate income individuals squeezed by the high cost of housing.

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