Pallet

Yeah.

P- Pallet was based out of Everett, Washington, and started up as kind of...

A lot of cities around the country were trying to deal with this k- growing, uh, issue of homelessness.

Uh, so it's kind of this innovative idea, and yeah, they, uh, they [laughs] shut down.

So for 57, you know, let's round it up, $58,000 a year you can get a frigging shed, um, or for $20,000 a year, [clears throat] you can get a luxury two-bedroom apartment with like a toilet and a kitchen and stuff like that, right? And, uh, and, uh, I guess the second bedroom is for your three-legged dog for when you go out to beg at the off-ramp, right? Um, now about those, those sheds.

Uh, they're called Pallet homes.

Pallet, um, uh, was the, the company, now out of business.

But, uh, the City of Rochester paid $750,000, three-quarters of a million dollars, for 19 of those.

And these are...

And that would be the second pallet shelter that the city would be operating.

Karina, when you talk about the pallet shelters there, are those prefabricated units?

Yeah, they're actually built by a company called Pallet, and those are similar to kind of what you might envision if you think of a tiny home, and they are prefabricated, yes.

And so when the city's ready to bring those in, it's a pretty fast process of installation? Yeah.

Well, you would think so, but, you know, this current process is, you know, we're in kind of about the 13th or 14th month.