Peter McVerry Trust to double its housing by 2020

The homeless and housing charity, Peter McVerry Trust, intends to more than double its housing provision to 450 by 2020.

The charity’s five-year strategy plan, launched yesterday, focuses on the housing needs of vulnerable young people leaving institutional care settings and those with complex needs.

Chief executive of the trust, Pat Doyle, said they currently had 165 housing units, 350 shelter beds and 90 hostel beds but now wanted to focus on a long-term solution.