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1/12/2026 Media Advisory: Housing Affordability Commission to delve into impact of insurance market on affordable housing
STATE HOUSE – The Special Legislative Commission to Study Housing Affordability will meet Thursday for presentations on the current home insurance market in Rhode Island and its impact on affordable housing.

The meeting is scheduled Thursday, Jan. 15, at 1 p.m. in the House Lounge on the second floor of the State House.

Scheduled to come before the commission to provide presentations are:
  • Elizabeth Kelleher Dwyer, director of the Department of Business Regulation
  • Ernest Shaghalian Jr., sales executive at Butler & Messier Insurance Agency
  • Frank O’Brien, vice president and general counsel at the Massachusetts Property Insurance Underwriting Association.
No public testimony will be taken at this meeting.

The meeting will be televised on Capitol Television, which can be seen on Cox channel 61, on i3Broadband channel 15 and on Verizon channel 34. It will be live streamed at capitoltvri.cablecast.tv.
 



For more information, contact:
Larry Berman, Communications Director for the Office of the Speaker
State House Room 322
Providence, RI 02903
(401) 447-2655