Resources

Moving UPP is a project to improve our community’s housing and homelessness services by clarifying sector roles & responsibilities, integrating service pathways from housing precarity to secure re-housing, and establishing a locally-controlled framework for change.

Prepared for the Alliance by Steve Pomeroy, this report shows how helping non-profits buy existing moderately affordable rental buildings can help address the ongoing erosion of existing low-rent housing options.

When someone in Ottawa needs help finding housing, where do they go? How do they know what services are available and where to find them? By inventorying individual programs and services, we highlight the strengths in the sector and opportunities for growth and improvement.

Our City Starts With Home: Scaling Up Non-profit Housing in Ottawa (a report to Ottawa City Council, April 2023)

This report looks at data associated with veteran homelessness in Ottawa. The findings suggest that veterans are overrepresented among people experiencing homelessness. Targeted efforts are needed to provide appropriate support and affordable housing to veterans.

This report summarizes some of the potential policies that could create new affordable housing along LRT corridors. It provides context for community issues and concerns and demonstrates the role of the City, developers, and social housing providers in creating transit-oriented development.

As part of the hidden homeless, street-level/survival sex workers are an under-served population. Many are living in unsafe situations and do not often access traditional shelter or housing services in the city. This study points to the intersecting barriers to housing for street-level/survival sex workers and the success of approaches that work to meet survival sex workers “where they are”.

Youth across all demographics can and should have access to safe housing with the unique supports they require to remain stably housed. The recommendations outlined in this report are not only possible but long overdue.

This report details a needs assessment of the housing and support requirements of LGBTQ2S adults who have experienced homelessness. This is an important area of research, as there is a lack of information on the topic and it is not known if LGBTQ2S adults feel supported in the current homeless and housing system.