First tenants set to move into homeless hubs

From this week’s Galway City Tribune – Fifteen city families – currently being temporarily accommodated in hotels and B&Bs – are in the process of being moved to independent ‘ready-made’ modular homes at Westside that have just come on stream.

The €2 million pilot project – the first of its kind in the country, according to the City Council – will be administered and managed by the Peter McVerry Trust, a specialist provider of housing for people at risk of homelessness.

The two and three-bedroomed housing units provide independent living accommodation for families giving them their own kitchen, laundry, living, bedroom and bathroom facilities.

City Council Director of Services in Housing, Dermot Mahon, told the Galway City Tribune that the project was a very welcome development in helping to take families out of temporary accommodation in hotels and B&Bs.

He said that the first families were due to move into the modular housing units this week, which had the backup of a resource centre, a meeting room and office facilities, under the management of staff from the Peter McVerry Trust.

“These are very high-quality accommodation units that have an estimated lifespan of 60 to 65 years. They really are of an excellent standard and are designed for accommodation periods of between three and six months for the families occupying them,” said Mr Mahon.
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