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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-variant:small-caps'>Meeting notice from the Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:solid red 2.25pt;padding:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt;background:#E1EBF7'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:#E1EBF7;border:none;padding:0cm'><b><span lang=FR-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0070C0;text-transform:uppercase'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:#E1EBF7;border:none;padding:0cm'><b><span lang=FR-CA style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0070C0;text-transform:uppercase'>Why Defend Social Housing?</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0070C0;text-transform:uppercase'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:#E1EBF7;border:none;padding:0cm'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Federal social housing operating agreements have begun to expire.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:#E1EBF7;border:none;padding:0cm'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Will there be an impact on efforts to end homelessness and on existing social housing?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:#E1EBF7;border:none;padding:0cm'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:#E1EBF7;border:none;padding:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>The Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa Presents<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:#E1EBF7;border:none;padding:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:#E1EBF7;border:none;padding:0cm'><b><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";text-transform:uppercase'>an expert panel on June 8<sup>th</sup> <sup><o:p></o:p></sup></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:#E1EBF7;border:none;padding:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;text-transform:uppercase'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:#E1EBF7;border:none;padding:0cm'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0;text-transform:uppercase'>Jody Ciufo<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:#E1EBF7;border:none;padding:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Executive Director, Canadian Housing and Renewal Association (CHRA)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:#E1EBF7;border:none;padding:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0;text-transform:uppercase'>Ray Sullivan<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:#E1EBF7;border:none;padding:0cm'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Executive Director, Centretown Citizens Ottawa Corporation and Vice President, <span class=st><span style='color:#222222'>Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association (</span></span><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;font-style:normal'>ONPHA</span></em><span class=st><span style='color:#222222'>)</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:#E1EBF7;border:none;padding:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0;text-transform:uppercase'>Steve Pomeroy</span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0;text-transform:uppercase'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:#E1EBF7;border:none;padding:0cm'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Focus Consulting, Inc. and Senior Research Fellow, University of Ottawa Centre on Governance<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:#E1EBF7;border:none;padding:0cm'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center;background:#E1EBF7;border:none;padding:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Friday, June 8th, 2012, 9:00 to 11:00 a.m.</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center;background:#E1EBF7;border:none;padding:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>171 George Street, </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Salvation Army Booth Centre, 1<sup>st</sup> floor meeting room<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:#E1EBF7;border:none;padding:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>RSVP:</span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'> <a href="mailto:atehott@gmail.com">atehott@gmail.com</a> </span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>This important meeting is for all ATEH members and other affected stakeholders.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:#E1EBF7;border:none;padding:0cm'><b><span style='color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p></div><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Why defend social housing? <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:120%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Across Canada, hundreds of thousands of co-op, non-profit and public housing units have been receiving subsidies for decades from the federal government. These subsidies, which allow very low-income families to be housed, are beginning to run out. The number of housing units benefitting from long-term agreements decreased from 630,000 in 2006 to 613,500 in 2010, and this phenomenon will accelerate over the next five years. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:120%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>By 2032, the federal government will no longer fund any housing units. All social housing units built before 1994 will be affected. This represents a loss of $1.7 billion in funding per year.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:120%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>This meeting is an opportunity to find out we need to know about expiring social housing agreements. Can anything be done now? Some initial q</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>uestions:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:120%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Is this likely to slow down efforts to help people move out of emergency shelters or to help community members avoid becoming homeless? <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:120%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>What could this mean for those who have the lowest incomes and need to pay rent geared to their income? <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:120%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>What impacts could there be for low-income tenants currently living in co-op and non-profit housing who pay rent geared to their income? Will it impact other tenants too?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:120%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Are there difficult decisions ahead for affordable housing providers with rent geared to income units? <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:120%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>How do we preserve existing social housing, not only for current tenants, but for all households who will need it in the future?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Can we change the future of social housing if we start advocating together now?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:dotted windowtext 3.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0cm'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:1.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#17365D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Lynne Browne</span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#17365D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:1.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#17365D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Executive Director, Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa (ATEH) </span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#17365D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:1.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#17365D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><a href="mailto:lbrowne@ysb.on.ca" target="_blank"><span style='color:#17365D'>lbrowne@ysb.on.ca</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#17365D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:1.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#17365D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>613-241-7913 ext. 205, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:1.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#17365D;letter-spacing:.6pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>147 Besserer St., Ottawa, ON K1N 6A7<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#17365D;letter-spacing:.6pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><a href="https://mail.ysb.on.ca/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca" target="_blank"><span style='color:#17365D'>www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca</span></a></span></b><b><span lang=EN-US 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