Once you’ve identified your desired vision, you can set goals appropriately to guide you there. When setting goals, it’s good to look at the big picture of your health and well-being and establish a clear vision of what you want to achieve.
We strongly encourage you to start with the first few chapters of the book entitled “Building Motivation” and “Creating a Wellness Vision.” The goal setting guide (PDF) is intended to support you in building motivation and gaining a greater understanding of your lifestyle habits. How balanced is your wellness wheel? Which wellness areas do you want to work on first? When all dimensions of wellness are balanced, we are more resilient to life’s stressors and more likely to feel happy and satisfied. The wellness wheel below includes social, emotional, spiritual, environmental, occupational, intellectual and physical wellness. Wellness is a multidimensional state of being. They also need to show evidence of housing instability - such as a past-due rent or utility bill, or a self-attestation form - and economic hardship related to the pandemic, such as losing a job or paying higher prices.Wellness can be defined as a state of health, yet it extends beyond physical health, nutrition and the number on the scale. To qualify, renters need to earn no more than 80% of area median income, which is just under $62,000 for a two-person household. As of Monday, the program had approved $177.6 million in aid, with another $70 million still being processed. RentReliefRI provides up to 18 months of assistance with rent payments, utility bills and other housing-related costs. Jack Reed championed the money during negotiations over pandemic relief bills. “That’s what people are asking for - a high credit score, a good income, and that’s what is going to make a difference in that person getting an apartment,” he said.įor middle- and lower-income Rhode Islanders, there is also the RentReliefRI program, funded with $352 million in federal money.
With competition tight, MacDougall said his best advice is for renters to build up their credit scores, with many landlords looking for tenants who have scores above 700. I mean, that’s a lot of money.” But, he added, “I think this is the new normal.” The upshot? “Anyone that is making the $27,000 to $60,000 range, they’re hurting,” MacDougall said. Those individuals, who often have cash savings and strong credit, end up competing with long-term renters for the same supply of apartments.ĭemand is so strong that MacDougall said in the past year he has occasionally asked competing would-be tenants to come back with their “highest and best” offers for how much they’d pay - something that usually only happens with home sales rather than apartments for rent. Plus, some individuals who would like to buy a house are being boxed out of the market for single-family homes due to soaring prices and rising mortgage rates. They include an increase in the number of people who want to live in Rhode Island following the pandemic, as well as the growing number of buildings being purchased by investors who then raise prices to cover the cost of their purchases. MacDougall cited multiple factors helping to drive up rents. The real estate website Zillow shows rent for the typical apartment in the region was nearly $1,800 in March, up from just under $1,400 three years ago - a 24% increase since before the pandemic. Target 12 reviewed data from a half-dozen firms that track rents, all showing double-digit increases in the Providence metropolitan area.
Across Rhode Island, apartments are scarce and rents are soaring, making it harder than ever to find an affordable place to live.
By early April she’d been searching for two months, only to find few units available and asking rents up by $400 to $500 a month compared with 2018.īramhall has plenty of company. “The rent was so much cheaper.”īramhall has recently been looking for a new place on the East Side of Providence - and these days it’s a different story. “I thought it was a dream come true,” Bramhall recalled. (WPRI) - When Ali Bramhall decided to leave Boston four years ago, apartments in Providence looked like a relative bargain.
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