The Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa is a member-driven coalition of people and organizations working together to end homelessness through systems planning and coordination, public education and advocacy, and community-wide mobilization.

Our Work

We focus our work on concrete ways to reduce, prevent, and end homelessness.

 

#OttawaNeedsMore Campaign

#OttawaNeedsMore Campaign

We need your help. 

Ottawa will be receiving a mere $845,000 increase, or just 0.4% of the Province’s budget commitment of $202 million dollars. Toronto will be receiving 60 times as much increased funding as Ottawa. Yet, we are the second largest city in Ontario.

Over 2000 people stay in an emergency shelter in Ottawa every night. Our family shelter system is more than 350% over capacity and we now have a waiting list to access emergency shelter, let alone housing. 

Make your voice heard, write a letter to help ensure we save lives and receive the care our community desperately needs.

Starts With Home Campaign

Starts With Home Campaign

Starts With Home is a city-wide non-partisan campaign to build public and political support for addressing the housing affordability crisis in Ottawa.

Alliance supporters can learn, connect in, and take action on the Starts With Home website; our new space for public education and mobilization. Join the conversation!

 

Scaling Up Non-Profit Housing in Ottawa

Scaling Up Non-Profit Housing in Ottawa

The Alliance has received a Maytree grant to develop a report on scaling up nonprofit housing in Ottawa. Working with Dr. Carolyn Whitzman, Adjunct Professor and Researcher at the University of Ottawa as the lead author and researcher, the report will include a map of suitable and well located government owned sites that could be used for nonprofit housing; a policy scan of policies that can scale up the amount and affordability of nonprofit housing development; and financial proforma modeling for four actual sites in Ottawa.

Expert Steering Team

Expert Steering Team

To truly create system-level change, we need the expertise of people with firsthand experience of homelessness. Our Expert Steering Team works together to bring their knowledge, strengths, and skills to the Alliance and working groups across the sector. Their work impacts the way we create policies and processes to prevent and end homelessness in Ottawa.

Are you or your organization interested in working with the Expert Steering Team? 

DASH Project

DASH Project

There is a growing demand for social housing in Canada. The Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa is collaborating with researchers at the University of Ottawa to create a dashboard that will integrate existing databases of people waiting for social housing, people in the shelter system, and the available housing stock in a given community. The goal of the resulting system is to support communities in making informed decisions that address the specific social housing needs in their neighborhoods. This project is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

We look forward to sharing the final product with you when it is published in 2023.

Systems Inventory

Systems Inventory

Understanding people’s pathways in the homelessness system is an important part of creating robust coordinated access where people can get the help they need while only telling their story once. Taking inventory of all of the poverty-reduction services, agencies, and programs will help us build a more interconnected system of shared resources. Working together effectively helps people better access the resources they need. Together, we’re greater than the sum of our parts.

We look forward to sharing with you the results of our system inventory project in 2023.

Housing Leadership School

Housing Leadership School

In partnership with ACORN Ottawa, and funded by Ottawa Community Foundation, the Alliance co-designed and delivered the Housing Leadership School, a series of webinars, toolkits, and supportive FAQ content, to empower citizens to better understand housing policy, to advocate for change, and to equip tenants to know their rights and protect their right to housing.

These materials are now available on our website!

Vote Housing

Vote Housing

Vote Housing is a national non-partisan campaign, started during the 2021 federal election, designed to engage and mobilize Canadians to form a grassroots movement to rally public and political support for ending homelessness and housing need in Canada.

On National Housing Day 2022, we called on the federal government to implement the Vote Housing platform as part of a cost-of-living relief package. Not doing so will keep forcing families into housing insecurity. 

Will you join our call by signing the petition? 

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Deputation at the Finance and Corporate Services Committee

Watch our deputation at Finance and Corporate Services Committee.

Presented by our Executive Director Kaite Burkholder Harris:

Dear Chair and members of the Committee,

I’m speaking today on behalf of the Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa - an organization representing over 75 agencies in Ottawa in the housing and homelessness sector.

This new opportunity for supportive housing at 1245 Kilborn Avenue is an exciting and smart investment. Local supportive housing providers report seeing over 90% success in people staying housed long-term through supportive housing. It is a key step on the road to ending homelessness. 



Join our Team!

Community Housing Coordinator

Type of Position

Full-time, 1-year contract

Hours of Work

37.5 hours/ week, Monday – Friday, may include some evenings and weekends, depending on relevant events

Vacation & Benefits

4 weeks of vacation, plus an office shutdown between December 24th - January 1st

Start Date

As soon as possible

Salary

$75,000/ year, depending on level of experience

Application due: 

Monday, September 4th, 2023 at 5:00 pm *We will be conducting rolling interviews as applications are received.

Location & Office Environment

Ottawa, Ontario

This job is largely a community based, mobile position, and access to a vehicle is a requirement.  The successful candidate will have access to a central City office location, and will be provided with a laptop computer and the necessary software to complete their duties.

Request for Proposals: Achieving System Level Change

The Project:

The Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa, (Alliance) and the Ottawa Social Housing Network (OSHN) are looking for an experienced consultant or firm to work with us on a new project to be run under the title of “Investing in Collective Impact: Achieving System Level Change Through Collaboration”. Funding has been secured from the Ottawa Community Foundation for the development of a community perspective on the ‘ideal state’ of the pathway(s) from homelessness to housing in Ottawa. The work would include an environmental scan of good practices for coordination, use of system-wide data, as well as recommendations for change, such as roles and responsibilities of system stakeholders, flow patterns, etc. and the development of a framework for policies necessary to create this system.

The collective impact project will support the collaboration of the Alliance and OSHN to map out the ideal state of the housing and homelessness system, and the steps needed to operationalize it. It will show us how the services of our individual member organizations should evolve, and how we can collaborate across the non-profit sector to realize much-needed system-level changes.

 

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Phone: 343-552-0202
Address: PO Box 22021, Ottawa, ON K1V 0W2

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