First ’13 Houses’ Project Announced

Depaul USA announced a new housing project for homeless people as part of the Famvin Homeless Alliance’s 13 Houses campaign last week. The FHA is a Vincentian Family initiative, managed by Depaul International, to connect Vincentian homelessness services around the world and help to expand them.

The new project is part of Jericho Way, a Depaul resource centre for street homeless people in Little Rock, Arkansas. The new project involves renovating an empty home in the city to transform it into a new transitional housing unit.

The 13 Houses campaign, coordinated by the FHA, supports Vincentians around the world to create or improve services for homeless people – including refugees, slum dwellers and street homeless people. It takes inspiration from St Vincent de Paul’s creation of 13 houses for ‘foundlings’ – babies abandoned by their parents – in Paris four centuries ago. The campaign aims to create new services for homeless people in all countries where Vincentians have a presence, impacting over 10,000 people.