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The city should improve emergency shelter conditions for families, increase housing allowances and help people living in Ottawa Community Housing transition to their own homes by helping fund down payments, a report by council’s housing czar says.
Coun. Mark Taylor released his report on Thursday as the community and protective services committee received a separate report updating councillors on the 10-year housing and homelessness plan. The plan is coming up to its halfway point and the city will be consulting on what has worked and not worked so far.
Mayor Jim Watson appointed Taylor as the special liaison on housing and homelessness in August 2016, tasking him with finding ways to speed up the housing and homelessness plan and reducing the city’s reliance on emergency shelters.
In his report, which has 10 recommendations for the city, Taylor says the city’s family shelters “are in a state of degradation that significantly limits their effectiveness in serving the families housed there.” He suggests investing in a “family first centre” that could help provide a connection to affordable housing and provide shelter services, but it would probably take funding from the upper-levels of government to make it happen.
The city has recently seen a significant increase in the number of chronically homeless families.
The city should re-introduce housing loss prevention money that was removed in 2015, ask the province for a “basic income” pilot project in Ottawa and change the delivery of the social assistance program to give people incentive to move out of shelters, Taylor’s report says. He believes there should be different utility rates for affordable housing and social housing.
Taylor also recommends citing affordable housing near LRT stations through the city’s existing transit-orientated development strategy. He also suggests that Ottawa Community Housing should find a way to fund down payments on homes, which could be about $30,000 a home, based on average market prices in 2016.
“Ottawa Community Housing as the City owned housing provider should investigate partnering with an entity such as Habitat for Humanity to evaluate and pre-screen OCH tenants whose only barrier to moving out of OCH is that they will never gather a down payment or cannot afford market rent,” Taylor’s report says.
Taylor also suggests working closer with Indigenous agencies on housing services for Indigenous clients and consult with the Truth and Reconciliation of Canada report when making decisions on programming.
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Coun. Mark Taylor released his report on Thursday as the community and protective services committee received a separate report updating councillors on the 10-year housing and homelessness plan. The plan is coming up to its halfway point and the city will be consulting on what has worked and not worked so far.
Mayor Jim Watson appointed Taylor as the special liaison on housing and homelessness in August 2016, tasking him with finding ways to speed up the housing and homelessness plan and reducing the city’s reliance on emergency shelters.
In his report, which has 10 recommendations for the city, Taylor says the city’s family shelters “are in a state of degradation that significantly limits their effectiveness in serving the families housed there.” He suggests investing in a “family first centre” that could help provide a connection to affordable housing and provide shelter services, but it would probably take funding from the upper-levels of government to make it happen.
The city has recently seen a significant increase in the number of chronically homeless families.
The city should re-introduce housing loss prevention money that was removed in 2015, ask the province for a “basic income” pilot project in Ottawa and change the delivery of the social assistance program to give people incentive to move out of shelters, Taylor’s report says. He believes there should be different utility rates for affordable housing and social housing.
Taylor also recommends citing affordable housing near LRT stations through the city’s existing transit-orientated development strategy. He also suggests that Ottawa Community Housing should find a way to fund down payments on homes, which could be about $30,000 a home, based on average market prices in 2016.
“Ottawa Community Housing as the City owned housing provider should investigate partnering with an entity such as Habitat for Humanity to evaluate and pre-screen OCH tenants whose only barrier to moving out of OCH is that they will never gather a down payment or cannot afford market rent,” Taylor’s report says.
Taylor also suggests working closer with Indigenous agencies on housing services for Indigenous clients and consult with the Truth and Reconciliation of Canada report when making decisions on programming.
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