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Housing officials say the 45 pallet shelters of Echo Village will open "before winter" – but can't give a date. Providence Journal Months later, it's still empty.
ECHO Village is considered a "pilot" program, but Gov. Dan McKee said Tuesday he would like to see it duplicated in other areas of the state.
ECHO Village is considered a "pilot" program, but Gov. Dan McKee said Tuesday he would like to see it duplicated in other areas of the state.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — NBC 10's Dan Jaehnig got exclusive access to Echo Village. “Welcome to Echo Village. This is the newest program from House of Hope," said House of Hope Director Laura ...
As of Wednesday, the ECHO Village pallet shelter site in Providence will be staffed 24/7 and will begin to accept people seeing temporary shelter.
ECHO Village, 45 small, one-room structures on a vacant plot of state-owned land on Victor Street behind the Foxy Lady, has been in the works since at least 2020.
Housing officials say the 45 pallet shelters of Echo Village will open "before winter" – but can't give a date.
In Echo Village, bathrooms, showers, laundry and a community room will be provided in separate buildings on the 4-acre state-owned site between Victor Street and the Douglas Avenue on-ramp to ...
How much will the pallet village cost? The budget for ECHO Village is $3.3 million, with $2.9 million of that coming from Rhode Island's pot of federal aid and $475,000 from Providence.