Space before/after for placed text with hard

What is the best way to handle placed text that looks like:

Page: 1 Title: This is the title Date: 2016 Artist: John Doe Credit: John Doe Source: https://site.com/ http://site.com/x Page: 2 Title: This is the title Date: 2016 Artist: John Doe Credit: John Doe Source: https://site.com/ http://site.com/x Page: 3 Title: This is the title Date: 2016 Artist: John Doe Credit: John Doe Source: https://site.com/ http://site.com/x

I am placing this text into a 3-column layout master frame, so the text spans all columns and multiple pages.

I am trying to avoid spacing issues by using "space after" (or "before").

Unfortunately, when placed, I get this:

I would like my text to look like this (after being placed):

In the screen shot directly above, in order to get the related text bits to group together, I had to manually insert a "Forced Line Break" (Shift + Return) between the lines of related text.

Note that my paragraph style, for both screenshots above, uses space after to control paragraph spacing:

Question(s):

Is it possible for me to place the above text and have it look like the last screen shot as seen above?

If so, how?

From what I can tell, other than using a tagged text file (which I would like to avoid), I'll have to do some find/replace regex work on the placed text in order to get the results I want?

Any tips would be appreciated.