Alliance to End Homelessness - Ottawa

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Contact the Alliance at:
info@endhomelessness
ottawa.ca

The Alliance to End Homelessness (ATEH) in Ottawa envisions

an inclusive community that takes responsibility

for ensuring every resident has an appropriate home.

Our non-partisan coalition is committed to working
collaboratively to end homelessness.

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MUNICIPAL ELECTION 2010: What can you do?

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Report Card on Ending Homelessness in Ottawa

Jan-Dec 2009

DOWNLOAD THE FULL REPORT CARD English PDF   En Français PDF

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TARGETS TO END HOMELESSNESS IN OTTAWA IN 10 YEARS
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MEDIA RELEASE
English   En Français

2004-2009 Ottawa DATA TRENDS

GRADES for Measuring Progress, 2008 to 2009

D  Homelessness 

7,445 individuals
775 families with 1,317 children

E  Shelter stay

57 days on average length
family average was 64 days

C  Housing

88 new affordable units in 2009, 10,235 on the Social Housing Waiting List

C  Income

Rents too high for many people

All Report Cards on Ending Homelessness 2004-2007

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The From Homeless to Home Project

 

CLICK HERE for 5 ways to learn from people who have been homeless in Ottawa.

  1. Interviews with 11 people – watch & listen as they share their experience of homelessness & housing
    - now online

  2. Booklet with Research Highlights – easy to read
    - now online

  3. Documentary Film: "From Homeless to Home"
    - now online

  4. Radio Show - now online

  5. Stories in the Report Card on Ending Homelessness in Ottawa, Jan-Dec 2007
    - now online

What's New


February 2010

Alliance to End Homelessness Submission to the Ontario Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs Pre-Budget Consultation, February 2010 - “Affordable housing in Ontario can wait no longer: a path to move out of the deficit through jobs and economic growth”     

BRIEF     Appendices


February 4, 2010

RFP - Federal Homelessness Partnership Initiative (HPI) FUNDING , Deadline February 25, 2010, 3 pm. Released by the Community Capacity Building (CCB) Steering Committee. Details & application:   English    En Français


December 2009

Ontario's Consultation on a Long-term Affordable Housing Strategy ATEH Submission


October 2009

ATEH Submission on Federal Housing and Homelessness Investments


August 2009

Take actions to keep people housed!

Canadian Programs & Stimulus Measures?

ATEH brief to the Federal Standing Committee on Finance, Pre-Budget Consultations August 2009


June 2006

Homelessness and Media Activism in the Voluntary Sector: A Case Study

Announcing publication of research using the Alliance's media work leading up to and during the release of its First Report Card on Homelessness in Ottawa as the case study. Copyright permission to post granted by The Philanthropist, June 2006. The Philanthropist is Canada's only journal dedicated to providing legal, tax, and management information to Canadian charities and charitable foundations and their legal and financial advisors. For information on how to subscribe, please visit www.thephilanthropist.ca.

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