'Pallet' village for Everett's homeless could open in June
EVERETT — Homeless people who camp along Smith Avenue beneath the I-5 overpass might soon have more than tents and a concrete bridge to call home.
Officials are proposing a pilot program that would create a new community of individual shelter units behind the Everett Gospel Mission’s nearby shelter at 3711 Smith Ave.
The makeshift “pallet shelter” village, funded with roughly $1 million in state grant money, would house some 30 people for about a year while they try to find a longer-term housing solution, city staff told the Everett City Council late Wednesday.
Anyone left loitering in the area, though, would need to go elsewhere. Officials pitching the pilot program will also ask the council to approve an ordinance that would prohibit people from sitting or lying on the streets, sidewalks and other public rights of way surrounding the site, said Julie Willie, Everett’s community development director.
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