GREENSBORO, N.C. — People have been living at the temporary shelters, called pallet homes, in Greensboro for a couple of weeks now.
They give the homeless a place to stay during the cold winter months.
Tuesday, we met one of the residents from Pomona Park. It's a temporary fix, but it's got some people feeling better about their future.
Joseph Quick is one of the first ones to stay in these pallet homes.
"I've been in and out of the homeless situation for about five years now, I've been you know in a couple of shelters like that but they're all filled up," said Quick.
He said it's been a tough few years.
"I am not doing as good as I have done in life or better or whatever, but I'm doing okay, I'm living," he said.
He said these temporary pallet homes feel like home.
"My bike, that's my transportation here. I got my man cave hooked up, got my little shoes lined up," he said.
It's not just the kindness of those helping him out that keeps his heart warm, but also a really good heater.
"I got to open the window sometimes, it gets so hot in there, wake up in the middle of the night and say 'oh lord it's hot in here,' open the windows and cut it down some, but it's something until you can do better, you know what I mean, I don't knock it, other people would rather be out there like that, I don't knock it trust me, this to me in the situation I am in, this is a blessing to me," he said.
He said these are some of the greatest resources he's utilized and he's thankful to have a place to stay in the winter.
"I'm going to go uptown and hang out for a little while, and come on back and lay on down and get ready for tomorrow," he said.
Quick works part-time and hopes to land a full-time gig soon.
The pallet homes house 17 people, but next week 22 more people will join and the week after that, an additional 10 will join.
These homes will be up until the end of March, and then the city will take them down, as winter housing will not be needed.