Emergency housing pod certification hits another hitch

The State Fire Marshal’s Office completed its long-awaited inspection of Nashville’s unused emergency housing pods, but the process of converting them to short-term housing for the homeless has hit another hitch. 

In a letter to Metro Codes Director Byron Hall dated Sept. 11, inspector Devinder Singh Sandhu wrote that Pallet Shelter, which designed the 108 pods currently in Nashville Office of Emergency Management storage, did not design or construct the units to meet Tennessee’s manufactured homes regulation, but the units do meet the requirements to be classified as temporary emergency units.