<div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><br><img src="cid:ii_l1mew29g1" alt="image.png" width="273" height="230" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br></div><div id="gmail-page-item-100000-content" class="gmail-news-item-content" style="box-sizing:border-box;border-top-width:1px;border-top-style:solid;margin-top:11px;padding-top:11px"><div class="gmail-text-content" style="box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin-top:0px"><div class="gmail-truncate gmail-truncate-200" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px"><h3 id="gmail-page-item-100000-headline" class="gmail-news-item-headline gmail-h3" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:1.1;margin:0px"><a href="https://www.startswithhome.ca/stopthelosspanel" class="gmail-main-link" style="font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-size:small;font-weight:normal;box-sizing:border-box;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;text-decoration-line:none"><font color="#000000" size="4"><b>#StartsWithHome Talks: How we can stop the loss of affordable housing in Ottawa</b></font></a></h3><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 11px;font-size:18px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><b>Join us April 20th, 7:00 - 9:30 pm on Zoom</b></font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 11px;font-size:18px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://www.startswithhome.ca/events">Click here to register.</a></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 11px;font-size:18px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">In Ottawa, we lose 7 affordable units for every 1 that is built. Here in the capital and across Canada, housing has become a commodity rather than a basic need, resulting in tenant displacement to make way for higher paying tenants. Stopping the loss of affordable housing is as critical as building more to solve the housing crisis. </span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 11px;font-size:18px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">As part of the #</span><a href="https://www.startswithhome.ca/" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">#StartsWithHome</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> campaign, join the University of Ottawa’s </span><a href="https://crecs.uottawa.ca/" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Centre for Research on Education and Community Services (CRECS)</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> and the </span><a href="http://www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca/" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> to learn more about this important issue and what we can do to reverse this trend. </span></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 11px;font-size:18px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Join us to hear from:</font></span></p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:11px;margin-top:0px;font-size:18px;clear:left;padding-left:1.8em;font-family:Lato,sans-serif"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style:none;margin:0px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-icon-circle gmail-theme-accent-variables gmail-li-icon gmail-fa-layers" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;height:1.2em;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;width:1.2em"></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Sahar Raza - Project Manager of the National Right to Housing Network </span></font></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style:none;margin:0px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-icon-circle gmail-theme-accent-variables gmail-li-icon gmail-fa-layers" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;height:1.2em;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;width:1.2em"></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box">John Redin - advocate and former tenant of Herongate - a community that experienced one of the largest mass evictions in Canada</span></font></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style:none;margin:0px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-icon-circle gmail-theme-accent-variables gmail-li-icon gmail-fa-layers" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;height:1.2em;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;width:1.2em"></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Benoit Langevin - Montreal City Councillor involved in developing recent legislation to tackle this challenge at the local level. </span></font></li></ul><br class="gmail-Apple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