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.

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Our Work

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

 

Starts With Home Campaign

Starts With Home Campaign

Starts With Home is a city-wide non-partisan campaign aiming to build strong public support for Ottawa’s next City Council to take concrete action to solve the housing affordability crisis. You can read the platform here.

We have 140 organizational endorsements and we’re just getting started.

Vote4Housing Ontario

Vote4Housing Ontario

Vote4Housing Ontario is a provincial non-partisan campaign, driving five key recommendations that will help build, protect, and support deeply affordable community housing in Ontario. You can read the platform here.  

Help us maximize our impact to ensure that Ontario's provincial government prioritizes deeply affordable housing. Take action and spread the word by visiting vote4housing.ca

Report Your Renoviction

Report Your Renoviction

We know the solution to homelessness is affordable housing for all. Yet it can feel impossible to find an affordable home. Illegal renovictions are a part of the reason why our neighbourhoods are rapidly changing.

THIS IS A HOUSING EMERGENCY

THIS IS A HOUSING EMERGENCY

Homelessness was at a level of crisis when Ottawa City Council declared the housing emergency in January 2020 but the situation has only worsened. Not only is Ottawa not building enough new low rent affordable housing, we are losing much of the older, affordable housing stock.

Vote Housing

Vote Housing

Every day in Canada, 1.7 million households live in a home that is either unaffordable, overcrowded, or needs major repairs. 35,000 people experience homelessness on any given night. 

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Starts With Home Talks - Stop the Loss of Affordable Housing in Ottawa

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OTTAWA, ON April 19th 2022 The University of Ottawa’s Centre for Research on Education and Community Services and the Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa will host a virtual discussion on Wednesday, April 20th, at 7PM, to explore how Ottawa can and must stop the loss of affordable housing units in the city. This is the second event of the “Starts With Home” campaign, exploring one of its three key messages. 

100 Organizations Endorse New Campaign to Vote for Affordable Housing in Ottawa Election

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OTTAWA, ON - Two years following Ottawa’s declaration as the first Canadian city to have a housing and homelessness emergency, the Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa has launched the “Starts With Home” campaign. The non-partisan campaign aims to rally residents together to support affordable housing with their vote in October’s municipal election.

Alliance Statement on Occupation

The last week has been unlike any other in Ottawa. We are living in a city under siege, by a group of people who have shown deep disrespect for the people living here in serious and increasingly violent ways. 

The Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa represents 70 organizations in Ottawa that support people who experience homelessness. Alliance member organizations have released statements expressing the serious impact that this occupation has had on their communities, staff, and the people they support. Today, we call for an immediate and peaceful end to the occupation.

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