Webinar Trainings

Live trainings took place this fall and explored three core topics:

1. Local Tools for Housing
2. Funding & Financing
3. Building Public Support

Each module was offered as a series of three 90-minute sessions, tailored to three place type cohorts:

1. Centers & Mills
2. Neighborhoods & Corridors
3. Villages, Woodlands, & Shores

Most Rhode Island communities include more than one place type, and no single category will perfectly describe every municipality. If you’re not sure which cohort is the best fit, the descriptions below can help identify the place type that most closely aligns with the areas where housing opportunities and challenges are most prevalent.

All three cohorts covered the same core material, with tools, examples, and discussion tailored to the characteristics of each place type—including the buildings, parcels, development patterns, and regulatory conditions communities are working with.

For example, a conversation about adaptive reuse may look very different in a downtown mill district than it does for a rural school building or a suburban office park. Housing Forward’s cohort structure was designed to make the training practical and relevant to the places communities are working in.

Communities are encouraged to explore the webinar recordings below for more than one cohort if that better reflects their work.