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State of Rhode Island Executive Office of Housing

Housing Governance Report 2024

The FY25 Enacted Budget included a new reporting requirement for the Department of Housing. 

The 2024 Housing Organizational Plan Report which was due December 31, 2024, reviewed and recommended options for housing governance.

This webpage provides information about the development of the report. If you have any questions, please reach out to Margaret.Ivatts@housing.ri.gov. 

Statutory Language: “On or before December 31, 2024, develop a housing organizational plan to be provided to the general assembly that includes a review, analysis, and assessment of functions related to housing of all state departments, quasi-public agencies, boards, and commissions. Provided, further, the secretary, with the input from each department, agency, board, and commission, shall include in the plan comprehensive options, including the advantages and disadvantages of each option and recommendations relating to the functions and structure of the department of housing, including suggested statutory revisions.” 

This two-phase draft report was circulated to solicit feedback from any and all interested parties.  

Governance options were developed for consideration to be responsive to the findings in the landscape analysis. Click here to view a set of slides that laid out "straw options," the goal of which were to be a foundation for discussion.

In October 2024, Faulkner Consulting Group was contracted to provide capacity support for this project. 

There has been significant work done to review and consider the best approach for governance of housing functions in Rhode Island. This report will build on these efforts, not start from scratch. Recent efforts which informed the report include: