The City of Ottawa and local housing advocates hope a new, national housing strategy will help address an urgent need to provide affordable options for people who find themselves homeless. On Tuesday, Nov. 22 —National Housing Day — federal minister Jean-Yves Duclos will share what the government heard. Effort to no longer put good money into bad buildingsWith about two-thirds of the city's 22,500 social housing units, Ottawa Community Housing is by far the city's biggest landlord. Ottawa is a leader in this kind of thinking, said Fleury, and he wants a national housing strategy to also think about which units deserve renovations. Bulthuis said Canada is the only G8 country without a national housing strategy, and he and others have been pushing for one since the early 1990s, when the federal government cut back on its support for social housing.

Source: CBC News November 22, 2016 09:56 UTC