The national housing and homeless charity Peter McVerry Trust, which has its North East regional office in Drogheda, supported 137 people in County Louth during 2021.
The figure was revealed in the charity’s annual report for 2021 which was published earlier this week.
The charity, which is committed to reducing homelessness and the harm caused by substance misuse and social disadvantage, provides a number of services across the North East region including Housing First, housing services, homeless services and Aftercare housing.
Peter McVerry Trust is a strong advocate for the reuse of derelict houses as social housing, with 85% of their housing pipeline coming from regeneration projects.
In August of this year they announced that they had acquired a number of vacant buildings at The Alleys off William Street in Drogheda – a complex of houses built by The Church of Ireland for widows of clergymen in the 1700s.
After lying vacant and neglected for best part of half a century, the charity intends to restore the buildings and make them available as new homes for 14 people impacted by homelessness locally. (See our previous article).
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Peter McVerry Trust CEO, Pat Doyle, said: “At Peter McVerry Trust we’re focused on finding practical and sustainable solutions to the homeless crisis, which today touches every county in Ireland. In Louth we have a range of projects underway that will see long term vacant properties being brought back into use.
“We have delivered Repair and Lease projects across Drogheda and in Clogherhead, as well as Buy and Renew projects in Drogheda. Our aim is to bring as many vacant properties back into use as possible – to help more local people experiencing homelessness the key to their own door.”
“In 2021 we supported over 10,000 people impacted by homelessness. In 2022 we will continue to work as effectively as possible to reduce the number of people in homelessness across Ireland and give more people the key to their own front door.”
You can read the Peter McVerry Trust Annual Report Here
