In Providence, roughly 59% of households rent. The median renter spends over 40% of income on rent alone — before gas, groceries, medicine, or a car payment. Rent stabilization is a necessary first step. But it's only a first step. Single-payer healthcare, just-cause eviction protections, a corporate landlord registry, and right to counsel in housing court are each part of the same answer. hopeCARE is built around all of it.