Crossroads to break ground on North Kingstown affordable housing project

NORTH KINGSTOWN – Crossroads Rhode Island will break ground Monday at Kingstown Crossings, a former Navy housing complex being redeveloped into affordable housing for 370 local residents.

Crossroads Rhode Island and Rhode Island Housing, along with U.S. Senator Jack Reed, U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin and community leaders, are expected to gather at the site of the project on Devil’s Foot Road. The first phase of the project is expected to cost $13.7 million.

The project will be built in phases. The first will consist of 58 homes, with access to services including childcare, social services and transportation. Later phases will add 46 homes and additional social services.

Rhode Island Housing said it expects Kingstown Crossing to meet the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards. William Kite Architects of Providence has been hired as the architect.

The Navy built the present complex in the 1960s to house families of personnel stationed at Quonset. In 1992, the Navy gave the land to Travelers Aid of R.I., which became Crossroads Rhode Island. The complex has housed homeless and low-income people for years. However, Crossroads has limited the time people can stay in the complex to two years. The new housing will allow families to stay indefinitely.