There is no lack of housing being built in Little Compton, but it’s definitely not for affordable housing.

It’s at Warren’s Point and other totally private ocean-front areas, where multi-multi-million-dollar homes are being built, one right after another — soon to block out even a view of our ocean. As it is, there is no access to our ocean near these exclusive areas.

On a recent walk down Taylor’s Lane South, I saw what appeared to be one of those gigantic, grotesque and polluting cruise ships, docked at what once was a meadow with grazing cows. When I got closer, I saw that it was a nearly completed building which looked like a resort of some kind.  No, it was just another enormous palace with 20 or more rooms.

Just down the road in Fall River and Providence there are hundreds of people who have no rooms, no homes, and little to eat. Here, our year-round folks are having trouble making ends meet and bracing for a winter with sky-high heating costs, while those workers on the mansions are freezing while they work to finish them before summer. 

Sadly, our town seems to be an example of the gross inequality in our country.

Denise Lyons

Little Compton