What we do
Ottawa’s Housing and Homelessness Leadership Table is a cross-sector leadership body that provides strategic direction and system-level oversight for how Ottawa plans, coordinates, and improves its housing and homelessness response. We align the work of agencies, sectors, and the City of Ottawa around shared housing and homelessness goals, priorities, and outcomes, supporting coordinated action and system-wide accountability. The HHLT acts as a strategic advisory body to the City of Ottawa’s Housing and Homelessness Services.
The HHLT is responsible for:
Cosdesigning Ottawa’s 10-Year Housing and Homelessness Plan, ensuring community-wide engagement and developing sector buy-in. HHLT helps set shared priorities, define measurable outcomes, and ensure that strategies reflect the collective vision of the City and multiple sectors, supporting a coordinated approach to ending homelessness.
Developing and supporting a cohesive governance structure that connects the existing coordination and working groups with the HHLT’s sector-wide strategy for ending homelessness, in alignment with the 10 Year Plan and Indigenous Housing & Homelessness Strategy. HHLT fosters alignment among agencies and the City through consistent communication and engagement, and strengthens accountability by clarifying roles, responsibilities, and decision-making across the system.
Identifying system-level barriers, aligning cross-sector initiatives, and supporting the design of coordinated pathways for housing and homelessness services. It helps ensure that policies, programs, and resources work together efficiently to improve access and outcomes for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
Overseeing system-level performance, reviewing shared indicators and outcome data to track progress against targets. It supports evidence-informed decision-making, identifies gaps, and promotes continuous improvement, holding the housing and homelessness system accountable for delivering results.
The HHLT is responsible for overseeing:
Governance Structure Development & Implementation
Development and implementation of a cohesive governance structure across Ottawa’s housing and homelessness sector that connects the existing coordination and working groups with the HHLT’s sector-wide strategy for ending homelessness, in alignment with the 10 Year Plan and Indigenous Housing & Homelessness Strategy.
Ensure consistent, ongoing communication & engagement with stakeholders, including a crisis response strategy, while emphasizing long-range planning and preventative measures.
Define mechanisms for continuous evaluation and adaptation of the governance structure to ensure ongoing effectiveness.
10 Year Housing & Homelessness Plan Development & Implementation
Co-design the City of Ottawa’s 10 Year Housing & Homelessness Plan refresh, ensuring community-wide engagement, and developing buy-in.
Co-design an annual review to determine priorities and funding alignment with new priorities
Provide an ongoing advisory function for the implementation of the 10 Year Plan, taking in the context of the ever- changing landscape in the housing and homelessness sector
Systems Based Approach Ongoing Implementation
The ongoing design and coordination of the housing and homeless serving sector, using data to drive decisions in alignment with the 10 Year Plan and Indigenous Housing and Homelessness Plan.
The alignment of diverse funding streams towards agreed upon targets for preventing, reducing, and ending homelessness & housing stabilization objectives;
Development and monitoring of a comprehensive performance management, service standards, and investment monitoring;
Advance Housing First and other innovative, evidence-based supports and housing approaches tailored to local contexts.