[homeles_ot-l] 2012 Report Card on Ending Homelessness online NOW

[Lynne Browne]

Good afternoon,

 

The Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa released its Report Card on Ending
Homelessness in Ottawa, Jan-Dec 2012
<http://www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca/homelessness/2012ReportCard.cfm>  at a
well-attended press conference this morning at 10 am. Watch for media
coverage.

 

For the second year in a row, the Alliance gave grades ranging from "F" to
"A" for its four indicators of homelessness in the Ottawa: affordability of
housing; increase in new affordable units; total number of homeless
individuals and family members who stayed in an emergency shelter; and
average amount of time they spent there before housing was found.  Download
the 2012 Report Card to lean more.
<http://www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca/index.cfm>  (English and French PDFs)

 

ATEH's new campaign Raise Your Voice Canada
<http://www.raiseyourvoicecanada.org/>  came about because of the F and C
grades. This campaign asks concerned community members to "turn up the
volume on homelessness", to increase the "noise" about this issue on Twitter
and Facebook. Make some noise yourself! Use the hash tag
#raiseyourvoicecanada to help bring about change to the existing Federal and
Provincial programs and strategies on homelessness. (See back page of the
Report Card).

 

As an Ottawa-based non-profit, non-partisan organization the ATEH's 43
member organizations work together to generate ideas and solutions that
address homelessness. At the end of each year the status of homelessness in
Ottawa is assessed using a set of statistical sources tied to the four
indicators in relation to ATEH's four "ending homelessness" targets.

 

The biggest challenge faced by communities and municipal governments is that
they are provided with too little support from senior governments to be able
to end homelessness. Communities and municipalities can't do that alone!  

 

The impact of additional municipal spending was clearly demonstrated in the
2012 gains made with the City of Ottawa's $14M.  It's a lesson the senior
governments still need to learn.  It's easy to lose sight of the big picture
when so many helpful things are happening. Those good things are what keep
us hovering around the status quo instead of things getting even worse.

 

Read the Alliance's specific recommendations for the federal and provincial
governments so that their investments reduce the level of homelessness. Most
of the factors that increase the risk of homelessness, such as the lack of
affordable housing and the level of low income support and social services,
are not within the purview of the municipal government and the non-profit
sector.   While there is some good news regarding federal and provincial
investments, the general trend is that the higher levels of governments are
doing less, even while making it seem as though they are doing enough! 

 

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ATEH greatly appreciates that the 

Community Foundation of Ottawa 

provided a grant to produce the 2012 Report Card.

CFO_LOGO_CMYK.jpg

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Lynne Browne

 

Executive Director

Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa

171 George Street, Ottawa ON K1N 5W5

613-241-1573, ext. 314

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