GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Since 2022, the City of Greensboro has invested half a million dollars a year to maintain pallet homes.
Now they’re going in a different direction entirely. The city is starting two pilot programs to help those facing homelessness find a permanent living situation.
Greensboro will no longer use pallet homes to house homeless over summer; city leaders discuss housing solutions
The city plans to either keep the homes in storage and use them in an emergency or sell them to another municipality or organization.
“During the winter, the pallet homes never reach capacity,” McNeil said.
Latisha McNeil, the community safety director for Greensboro, says it costs more than half a million dollars to maintain the pallet homes each year, yet she says there were still open beds.
Housing-First Approach
McNeil says after seeing the same people in and out of the city shelters, her team realized their approach wasn’t working because she says the goal is to get people off the street and into permanent housing…