Resources for Tenants
Affordable Housing Resource Guide
- For the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s Affordable Housing Resource Guide, please click here for English or haga clic aquí para español.
Energy Assistance
- If you need information about qualifying for the low income electric rate with RI Energy, please click here for English or haga clic aquí para español.
- If you are interested in energy efficiency programs, please click here for English or haga clic aquí para español.
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Heating assistance is available through CAP agencies via the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). Visit your community’s CAP agency to apply:
- Blackstone Valley Residents: Blackstone Valley Community Action Program. www.bvcap.org/
- Coventry, Cranston, Foster, and Scituate Residents: Comprehensive Community Action Program. www.comcap.org/
- East Providence, Warren, Bristol, and Barrington Residents, & Newport, Portsmouth, Tiverton, Middletown, Jamestown, and Little Compton Residents: East Bay Community Action Program. www.ebcap.org/
- Johnston, North Providence, North Smithfield, Smithfield, Burrillville and Glocester Residents & Exeter, Charlestown, Narragansett, Westerly, North/ South Kingstown, Richmond, West Greenwich and New Shoreham Residents: Tri-County Communication Action Agency. www.tricountyri.org/
- Providence Residents: Community Action Partnership of Providence. www.cappri.org/programs/low-income-home-energy-assistance-liheap
- Warwick, West Warwick, and East Greenwich Residents: West Bay Community Action Program. www.westbaycap.org
- Woonsocket Residents: Community Care Alliance. www.communitycareri.org/
Maintaining your home
- To connect with a Community Action Agency near you, please visit Rhode Island Association of Community Action Agencies
- For information on how to keep your home healthy, please visit Green and Healthy Homes Initiative
- For information regarding RI’s Lead Law and Lead Poisoning, please visit RI Department of Health
- If you need assistance after a disaster, please visit Red Cross
- For basic needs referrals, please visit United Way of Rhode Island 2-1-1
Landlord Tenant Handbook
- If you are a tenant and wish to know your rights and responsibilities under RI Landlord Tenant Act, click here to download the Landlord Tenant Handbook 2024
Rental Guide
- Eviction FAQ
- For a complete listing of Public Housing Authorities and Affordable Housing Developments click here to down load the Rhode Island Rental Resource Guide
Housing Discrimination
If you believe you have been a victim of housing discrimination, please visit:
- Effective April 15, 2021, it is illegal for a landlord to discriminate against you based on your source of income (such as a Section 8 Voucher, etc). Click here for more information.
- South Coast Fair Housing
- Rhode Island Legal Services
- RI Commission for Human Rights (file a complaint)
- RI Attorney General (file a complaint)
