Links

Housing Help Ottawa   http://www.housinghelp.on.ca

Housing Help is a one-stop housing information and assistance agency. From simple tenancy questions to the crisis of homelessness, we work to solve a wide range of tenant and landlord issues.

 

Housing Help Ontario   http://www.findhousinghelp.ca/about/

Housing Help Ontario assists people with finding their local Housing Helps as well as providing a range of housing reasources.

 

Social Housing Registry   http://housingregistry.ca

The Social Housing Registry of Ottawa is a central waiting list for people applying for rent-geared-to-income (RGI) housing. It was created by housing providers and community housing agencies working together to make it easier to apply for subsidized housing in Ottawa.

 

City of Ottawa Housing Directory    http://ottawa.ca/residents/housing/index_en.html

The City of Ottawa Housing Directory provides an overview of housing alternatives and related services in the city. This Directory is available at all City Service Centres, Public Libraries and at various community agencies including many of those identified in the section entitled Advocacy, Legal and Referral Services

 

Alliance to End Homelessness   www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca

The Alliance to End Homelessness is a broad-based community-led initiative aimed at ending homelessness in Ottawa. The Alliance to End Homelessness brings together community groups, individuals - including homeless persons, governments and the private and voluntary sectors to address the problems of homelessness in Ottawa-Carleton

 

Canadian Housing and Renewal Association (CHRA) - bilingual   http://www.chra-achru.ca/

CHRA is a national non-profit organization that promotes access to adequate, affordable housing for low- and modest-income households, and seeks to heighten awareness of affordable housing issues through research, advocacy, networking and communications.

 

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) - bilingual   http://www.cmhc.ca/

CMHC is a Crown corporation and reports to Parliament through its Minister. CMHC's Mandate includes "housing affordability and choice"; its Corporate Objectives include (to) "Improve Housing Choice and Affordability for Canadians."

 

CMHC Housing Research Free E-Newsletter   http://www.cmhc.ca/en/enews/

Stay up-to-date with the latest socio-economic housing research findings and events. Research topics include sustainable community planning, improving housing market effectiveness, housing and population health, updates on household and housing conditions and trends, and housing solutions for "at risk" groups such as persons with disabilities, seniors, Aboriginals, immigrants, low-income Canadians and the homeless and more.

 

Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association (ONPHA) http://www.onpha.on.ca/

ONPHA is an association of non-profit housing organizations which provide high quality affordable housing for low and moderate income people in communities across Ontario.

 

Wellesley Insitute   http://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/

The Wellesley Institute is a Toronto-based non-profit and non-partisan research and policy institute. Their focus is on developing research and community-based policy solutions to the problems of urban health and health disparities.

 

Housing Network of Ontario   http://stableandaffordable.com/

The Housing Network of Ontario is a network of anti-poverty activists, homelessness and social housing advocates, equity and human rights groups, non-profit organizations, tenants with lived experience of poverty and others who are working to ensure the provincial government delivers the integrated and fully-funded affordable housing strategy our communities need.