House of Hope, RIDOH and the City of Providence have collaborated on the ECHO Village project for several years. The shelter was supposed to open by March 2024, but faced a number of delays due to supply chain issues and challenges with permitting.

The shelter of 45 small, one-room structures on state-owned land behind the Foxy Lady strip club has been in the works since 2020. Homelessness in Rhode Island has increased 66 percent over that time.

ECHO Village is the state's first pallet shelter community to help people experiencing homelessness. Sometimes a good mistake is exactly what you need to make a movie scene work. These bloopers and errors technically shouldn't have happened - but once you watch the finished scenes,