We focus our work on concrete ways to reduce, prevent, and end homelessness.
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 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
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.
Expert Steering Team
To truly create system-level change, we need the expertise of people with firsthand experience of homelessness. Our Expert Steering Team will work together to bring their knowledge, strengths, and skills to the Alliance and working groups across the sector. Their work will impact 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? Get in touch at info[at]endhomelessness.ca or call 343-552-0202.
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
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.
Ottawa Giving Project
The Ottawa Giving Project is a collaborative effort to make donating winter items easy to people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Due to COVID, community agencies have less space and fewer volunteers to sort through donations. This community partnership continues on with Gifts In Kind Ottawa.
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.
