#homelessness #housing firstNearly 300 find permanent home with city's housing first strategy_ (Via City of Ottawa) _ ** Ottawa ** – Mayor Jim Watson and Councillor Diane Deans, Chair of the Community and Protective Services Committee, held a community celebration at City Hall today marking the first 250 participants to secure permanent housing as part of the Housing First initiative, a priority of the City’s Ten-Year Housing and Homelessness Plan. ...
#Alliance to End Homelessness #ATEH #homelessness #Progress Report on Ending HomelessnessNew Progress Report on Ending Homelessness in Ottawa** Fewer persons accessing shelters – but longer periods of homelessness point to a missing key ingredient in solutions to homelessness: affordable housing. ** The latest _ Progress Report on Ending Homelessness _ (attached), summarizing the state of homelessness in Ottawa at the end of 2014, was released by the Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa on ...
#affordable housing #City #development #homelessness #non-profit sector #social policyAlliance to End Homelessness 11th annual Community Forum on Ending Homelessness brings national and local experts togetherThe Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa will hold its 11th Annual Community Forum on Ending Homelessness on Wednesday, November 26, 2014. The day begins (at 8:45 am) with a municipal proclamation of National Housing Day in Ottawa by City of Ottawa Councillor Mark Taylor, on behalf of Mayor Jim Watson. ...