PROVIDENCE − Between the time Rhode Island nonprofit House of Hope first sought to build a temporary homeless shelter village and the planned opening of "ECHO Village" in Providence Wednesday ...

(WJAR) — Rhode Island Department of Housing announced Friday that the Echo Village Pallet shelters will not be opening until next year. "Operationalizing the Echo Village pilot program has ...

Homelessness in Rhode Island has more than doubled over that time. PROVIDENCE — After years of delays, ECHO Village, a temporary shelter for homeless individuals and couples, has finally opened.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — The cost of Rhode Island’s Pallet home project to shelter the homeless has ballooned by nearly 40%, the NBC 10 I-Team has learned. Echo Village in Providence is ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Rhode Island’s first pallet shelter community officially opened Tuesday morning. A grand opening ceremony was held at ECHO Village, located on Victor Street ...

ECHO Village, which consists of 45 single-person units, is the first pallet shelter pilot in the state. The shelters will begin welcoming unhoused people as soon as Feb. 12. The Tuesday opening ...

The Department now estimates that ECHO Village will not open until "this fall." While the shelters are new to Rhode Island and its code-enforcement officials, they exist in 100 communities in the ...

PROVIDENCE − Rhode Island's first village of tiny temporary ... that timeline for the project known as ECHO Village will not be met and work is still going on to make the shelters code compliant ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — With homelessness in Rhode Island at record highs, advocates are making persistent calls for urgent solutions to the growing crisis. Experts detailed the severity of ...

Amy King, CEO of Pallet, the company that builds the shelters used in ECHO Village, said the permitting in Rhode Island was the longest she had ever seen for a similar project. "This is innovative ...

PROVIDENCE – You can assemble one of the micro-cottages known as pallet shelters with a small group of people – no specialized training required – in about the time it takes to put together ...