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Your leadership
is essential to advance policies and investments

Your role as a decision-maker at Council, Queen’s Park, or Parliament can help ensure that we champion solutions that end, not just manage, the housing and homelessness crisis affecting our communities. 

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Work with our Expert Steering Team

The EST is a staff team of housing and homelessness professionals with lived experience of homelessness. Together they partner with organizations, researchers, and government bodies to shape policies, programs, and practices.

We provide: 

  • Consultations, trainings and presentations
  • Facilitating focus groups
  • Collaborating with committees
  • Research
  • Governance leadership
  • Helping your organization incorporate lived experience perspectives in your planning process
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Meet with the Alliance

We are happy to meet with decision-makers to learn more about the pressures you face with the housing and homelessness crisis and provide evidence-based solutions and connections to other key stakeholders.

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Become a member

Become a member to formally support the Alliance’s mission and demonstrate your commitment to ending homelessness in Ottawa. Membership helps strengthen our collective voice and keeps you connected to the priorities, advocacy, and work of Ottawa’s housing and homelessness sector.