The Brief
- The City of Dallas is exploring two different housing concepts to address homelessness: temporary Pallet shelters and permanent tiny homes.
- The 70–120 sq ft temporary Pallet homes are designed to house individuals who refuse to go to a congregate shelter.
- Separately, Our Calling is opening a privately-funded tiny home community in Ellis County to house chronically ill or disabled individuals.
DALLAS – The City of Dallas is looking into creative ways to house the homeless.
The ideas range from permanent tiny houses to temporary housing in individual Pallet houses.
What we know:
The idea of temporary Pallet housing is to get people off the streets who would not go to a congregate shelter.…