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Alliance to End Homelessness REPORT CARD ON ENDING HOMELESSNESS IN OTTAWA JAN TO DEC 2010 The Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa established targets in 2009 that would be needed to end homelessness in our community by 2020 with the help of the Federal, Provincial and Municipal governments. TARGETED SPENDING WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Is our community on target as of December 2010? NOT YET TARGETS 2009 INDICATOR 2010 GRADE 1. REDUCE NUMBER PEOPLE OF PEOPLE IN 7,184 7,156 EMERGENCY SHELTER (Total Individuals) C SUBGROUPS2 Annual target: 500 fewer people a year. 823 Family Units 832 1,413 Children3 1,408 In 2010, 55 people moved to The Oaks, new (By 2020: only 2000 people housing for those needing intensive supports. 1 453 Youth 512 homeless .) 1,091 Single Women 1,099 3,472 Single Men 3,393 2. SHORTER SHELTER 59 DAYS STAYED 62 STAYS (Average) D- Annual target: a 3 day 63 days Family Units 72 days reduction in average stay. 34 days Youth 31 days At last – a solid increase (By 2020: reduced to 30 day 47 days Single Women 49 days in new affordable housing! stay.) 58 days Single Men 59 days 600 500 3. CREATE HOUSING 88 NEW 334 400 THAT’S AFFORDABLE AFFORDABLE C+ 300 Annual target: 1000 new built UNITS 200 units and/or rent supplements. 100 (By 2020: 10,000 new units & 0 4,000 on the social housing 7 004 009 wait list.) 2 2005 2006 200 2008 2 2010 4. HOUSING IS MORE All governments need to HOUSING IS AFFORDABLE invest more AFFORDABLE F Appropriate investment in Annual target: movement (Percent Income to toward 30% income on rent Pay Rent) affordable housing, like the federal for a bachelor apartment for / provincial stimulus dollars, helps 45% Minimum Wage 44% a single person on low our community reach annual targets. income. 118% Ontario Works 121% (By 2020: no more than The 2010 numbers are daunting, but Ontario Disability 30% of income is spent on 66 % 69% hope is in the air. Our community can Support Program housing.) become inclusive and ensure everyone has an appropriate home by 2020. 1 Emergencies like fire, family breakdown, illness, etc. will continue to displace some people temporarily. On the municipal level 2 Totals in each group are based on use of emergency shelters by different 9 The 2011 city budget included individuals or families. A small number of individuals may be represented in more than one subgroup because of changes in age or family status over the $14 Million in new funds for homelessness and poverty reduction! course of the year. 3 Dependents 18 & under. DATA CENTREFOLD – on pgs 8 & 9 – see all the numbers behind the grades Download the full Report Card in English or French at www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca The Alliance to End Homelessness, a non-partisan group, produces this IN THIS annual Report Card to track our community’s progress in meeting REPORT HOW WE SEE IT targets to end homelessness. A message to the community MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS CARD Action-Logement / Action-Housing On page The community faced challenges in meeting Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa 2010 targets to end homelessness by 2020. Clearly, Bronson Centre 1. On target to end Bruce House the Federal and Provincial governments need to do Canadian Mental Health Association, Ottawa homelessness? Branch much more, not less. Targeted spending will make Canadian Red Cross 2. How we see it Carlington Community and Health Services a difference! That’s why we very much welcome the Catholic Immigration Centre 3. Parliament and housing Causeway Work Centre new direction from City Hall under the leadership Centre 454 4. Queen’s Park, housing and Centre 507 Drop-In homelessness of Mayor Watson as embodied in the 2011 budget. Centre Espoir Sophie Centre for Research on Educational and It includes $10M for the Housing and Poverty Community Services, University of Ottawa 5. In the City of Ottawa Centretown Citizens Ottawa Corporation Initiative to address homelessness and poverty, and Centretown Community Health Centre 6. A portrait of shelter use Christmas Exchange of Ottawa in Ottawa $4M for capital investment in housing. City of Ottawa, Housing Services Branch Cooperative Housing Assoc. Eastern Ontario 7. Calgary’s Plan to End Marion Wright, Chair Cornerstone Housing for Women The Alliance to End Homelessness Daybreak Non-Profit Shelter Homelessness Debra Dynes Family House Elizabeth Fry Society 8. DATA CENTREFOLD: Emily Murphy Non-Profit Housing perspective, housing & POSITIVE IN 2010 Family Services Ottawa affordability . Thanks to housing, shelter and service providers and First Baptist Church Good Day Workshop federal, provincial and municipal funding, some 334 Harvest House Ministries 9. DATA CENTREFOLD: shelter new additional affordable units were added in 2010. Horizons Renaissance Inc. use, length of stay plus Housing Help 7-Year Trend These included: Jewish Family Services o Beaver Barracks – 160 units in Phase I John Howard Society of Ottawa 10. What is Canada’s hidden Knights of Columbus St. George Council o The Oaks – supportive housing for 55 people Ministry of Community & Social Services, Eastern emergency? Region Office . The average stay of youth in shelters is close to the Minwaashin Lodge/Oshki Kizis Healing Lodge 11. Deprivation in Ottawa. Try target adopted last year – 30 days Montfort Renaissance Ontario’s Deprivation Index Multifaith Housing Initiative Nelson House of Ottawa-Carleton 12. Deprived, not hopeless – NEUTRAL IN 2010 Nepean, Rideau, Osgoode Community Resource Centre neighbourhood perspective . The Federal Government renewed its homelessness Nursing Students of Ontario funding to 2014 but with no increase since 1999 Oasis Program at Sandy Hill Community Health 13. Place matters: photovoice in Centre Ottawa Odawa Native Friendship Centre NEGATIVE IN 2010 Ontario Association of Social Workers, Eastern 14. / 15. New housing in 2010! Branch . No plans to increase amount of affordable housing in Ontario Public Interest Research Group, Carleton 16. Psst…Can I ask you a Ontario’s new Affordable Housing Strategy University Operation Come Home favour? . No National Housing Strategy Options Bytown Non-Profit Housing Corporation . The average stay in shelters continues to rise Ottawa Action on Poverty/Action Pauvreté Ottawa Community Immigrant Services – 72 days on average for families Organization Ottawa East Churches for Affordable Housing Report Card Data Sources . Housing affordability did not improve for OW and Ottawa Inner City Health Inc. ODSP Recipients Ottawa Inner City Ministries Canada Mortgage and Ottawa Pastoral Counselling Centre Housing Corporation Ottawa Salus Corporation Pinecrest-Queensway Community Health Centre City of Ottawa, including the Pinganodin Lodge Inc Homeless Individuals and What is homelessness? Psychiatric Survivors of Ottawa Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre Families Information System, Salvation Army Booth Centre HIFIS3, Aggregate Database . Living on the street Sandy Hill Community Health Centre (shelter use data has been . Staying overnight in temporary shelters Shepherds of Good Hope revised to correspond to new Social Planning Council of Ottawa methodology) Somali Center for Youth, Women & Community . Staying in places not meant for human habitation Development Province of Ontario Somerset West Community Health Centre . Moving continuously among temporary housing South-East Ottawa Community Health Centre Social Housing Registry arrangements provided by strangers, friends or family St. Joe’s Women’s Centre of Ottawa Stewart and Associates (“couch surfing”). The Ottawa Food Bank Ottawa Supportive Housing The Ottawa Mission Network The Well/La Source Who is at risk of becoming homeless? Families Tungasuvvingat Inuit Statistics Canada United Way/Centraide Ottawa and individuals can lose their housing for any number of Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health reasons: losing a job, having an income too low to stay in West End Legal Services Western Ottawa Community Resource Centre suitable housing, fleeing abuse. Some are at risk YMCA-YWCA, National Capital Region because of mental illness or substance use problems. Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa Others lack the life skills or ability to live on their own. Youville Centre 2 Visit www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca for more information and the Report Card PDFs in English + French Parliament and housing CLOCK’S TICKING It’s time to 1. Our country and our community need a well-funded increase the federal role NATIONAL HOUSING STRATEGY in meeting Canadian . Spend 2 billion dollars a year to construct new social housing units housing . Protect the 600,000 existing social housing units across Canada needs! . Reinvest money from expiring social housing operating agreements . Increase the annual funding for the Homelessness Partnering Strategy 2. Stop the federal move in 2011 to abandon homeless people and those on low incomes . REVERSE THE 39% CUT in the national housing agency spending (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation: 3.1 billion in 2010 to $1.9 billion in 2011) . REVERSE THE 11% CUT in Canada’s Homelessness Partnering Strategy ($124 million in 2010 cut to $110 million in 2011) David Vincent Let politicians know YOU vote for housing! Photo: And let them know you want more projects like these examples below. They end homelessness! Cornerstone’s new building construction is near completion 42 New Supportive Housing Units for Women Building is underway with funding collaboration in 2010 Cornerstone/Le Pilier provides shelter and housing for homeless women in Ottawa. Cornerstone is realizing a 7 year plan to build more affordable housing and most of the funding came together in 2010. The new building at 314 Booth Street will house 20 senior women and David Vincent 22 younger women, all of whom will have access to the support services they need to live a life of dignity and hope. Photo: Cornerstone is an excellent example of what funding collaboration can do in Ottawa – Cornerstone/Le Pilier & many community donors Ottawa Inner City Health Inc. and Somerset West Community Health Centre Government funds: $2.1M Federal Homelessness Partnering Strategy; $6.3M, 50% Canada-Ontario Affordable Housing Program; and rebates and waivers from the City of Ottawa.