On Fall River’s waterfront, the debate over market-rate housing unfolds

By: Hallie Claflin

Outlets: Rhode Island Current

Published: September 17, 2026

Words: 2,545

Last Updated: 1 day ago

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This article first appeared on CommonWealth Beacon and is republished here under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

If there’s one thing advocates, officials, residents, and experts can all agree on, it’s that Massachusetts’s Gateway Cities need more housing. A lot of it.

What kind of housing needs to be built? That’s where the agreement ends.

In Fall River — where one in five residents live in neighborhoods with highly concentrated …

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