Our emergency shelters have steadily added beds over the years. Shelters exist due to service gaps caused by stagnant government funding.
a housing and homelessness emergency. We appreciate support in the 2023 budget for housing, including operating and repairing social housing, rent supplements, housing allowances and homelessness programs. However, the $15 million allocated for new affordable housing has not increased since it was introduced in 2019.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
• We appreciate the city’s support of Ottawa Community Housing, with whom we partner to secure affordable housing for our clients, and also through stops at OCH buildings for our food-truck program. However, there are 12,000 individuals on OCH’s waiting list, many of whom wait for years; The budget has increased since 2019 and now tops $5.5 billion. We urge council to increase funds for new affordable housing from $15 million to at least $20 million given the need for affordable housing.Article content
We also provide mental health and addiction programs, primary, hospice and dental care, housing, employment and educational support, job training, spiritual care, and clothing to thousands. We’re a housing-focused shelter committed to housing as a human right. In addition to working with OCH to place people in housing, we own apartment buildings to provide homes to former clients.Article content
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