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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
Inclusionary zoning is a powerful tool at the City’s disposal to create more affordable housing. A strong inclusionary zoning policy would ensure that new builds have permanent affordable units, based on a household’s income. In order to have an impact on the housing and homelessness crisis in Ottawa, a strong Inclusionary Zoning policy would ensure a baseline of 20% to an eventual target of 30% of new units would be affordable to households with modest income, and that a portion of these units reserved for households making under $24,000 per year.
I want to start by saying that we can end homelessness. It’s a systems issue, and it needs systems-level solutions. Maintaining the crisis is expensive, and solving it is the economical solution.
