Community Liaison, Expert Steering Team
Type of position:
Part time, 2-year contract (with possible extension)
Hours of work:
8hrs/month
Compensation:
$25/hr
Start date:
Immediately
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Communications Coordinator
Type of Position
Full-time, indeterminate position
Hours of Work
37.5 hours/ week, Monday – Friday, may include some evenings and weekends, depending on relevant events
Start Date
February 2023
How the City of Ottawa can boost non-profit housing now.
Three years ago, Ottawa’s council unanimously declared a housing and homelessness emergency. Since that time, the price of housing has risen to alarming levels. Rental prices have increased by 20 per cent from 2021 to 2022 alone. Fewer and fewer people can afford to live in this city, and far too many are on the edge of homelessness due to lack of affordability. It’s clear that we have yet to meaningfully respond to the root causes of this emergency.
The house is on fire, but we haven’t called 911.
Submission to Standing Committee on Heritage, Infrastructure and Cultural Policy re: Bill 23
Bill 23 - More Homes, Built Faster -
threatens the possibility of a future without homelessness.
Projet de loi 23 - visant à accélérer la construction de plus de logements -
menace la possibilité d'un avenir sans sans-abri
Inclusionary Zoning: Deputation to the Joint Planning and Community & Protective Services Committee June 2022
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.
Strengthen Tenant Protections: Deputation to Joint Planning and Community & Protective Services Committee
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.
RE: 'Out of control' — Hintonburg beset with sudden homeless crowd, May 7th 2022 (Ottawa Citizen)
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
In his out-of-control article on respite centres, Kelly Egan writes about “homeless souls” and the residents forced to act “as watchful social workers over the city’s most troubled people”. Drug paraphernalia of unknown origin was the sole corresponding photography with this article, and more concerning, crime trends were cited without the slightest effort to prove a correlation to the residents of the Tom Brown Arena.
Starts With Home Talks - Stop the Loss of Affordable Housing in Ottawa
PRESS RELEASE
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
PRESS RELEASE
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.