Pallet, the Washington-based shelter manufacturer chosen for Dallas's planned South Dallas transitional housing community, announced it is closing its business after nine years. Dallas's plan calls for a 75-unit non-congregate community on 3.6 acres, at a price of $2.7 million paid from 2024 bond funds and with estimated annual operating costs of $1.5 million to $2 million; the city's published timeline places the Pallet unit order in December 2026 and installation by September 2027. Neither Pallet nor Dallas's Office of Housing and Community Empowerment had responded to requests for comment at publication.
Pallet said it created more than 6,000 beds and sheltered an estimated 30,000 people across the US and Canada since 2017.
Pallet Shelter, the Everett-based manufacturer of micro-modular shelter units, announced it will cease operations Friday. The closure comes months after the nonprofit Everyone Deserves Housing opened a 75-unit Pallet shelter in Interbay under a Seattle Human Services Department contract amended in April from $1.3 million to almost $4 million. Mayor Katie Wilson said the city would continue opening wooden tiny houses; PubliCola reported the city has opened or announced a net 175 new Pallet and tiny house units against Wilson's goal of 1,000 new shelter beds in her first year.
In 2024, a fire at a Pallet shelter on Elliott Ave. W operated by Catholic Community Services destroyed or damaged 25 units and displaced 28 people.