On the 15th of November Frances Doherty from Peter McVerry trust cane in and gave us a talk about homelessness.
When he first came in he gave a brief talk about his role in the organisation. When he was finished that,he then began to tell us what they are doing at the moment to try to fix this crisis.
As he was talking one thing that shocked me was that there are a large amount of free houses that they have tried to buy and people won’t sell them because they know they are for homeless people.
He also said that the amount of people who are homeless have doubled in the last ten years. This shocked me because there are more people working to try to fix the situation, I really enjoyed this because it gave me a lot of information and made me excited to work with this topic in YSI.
When he first came in he gave a brief talk about his role in the organisation. When he was finished that,he then began to tell us what they are doing at the moment to try to fix this crisis.
As he was talking one thing that shocked me was that there are a large amount of free houses that they have tried to buy and people won’t sell them because they know they are for homeless people.
He also said that the amount of people who are homeless have doubled in the last ten years. This shocked me because there are more people working to try to fix the situation, I really enjoyed this because it gave me a lot of information and made me excited to work with this topic in YSI.