Member Housing and Homelessness Initiatives Discussion

This session will bring together OMSSA Members to discuss the initiatives they’ve designed to address the current challenges in housing and homelessness. We’ll hear from a spectrum of Members on, but not limited to, the following issues:

• How has homelessness changed since the pandemic, as well as in the last year?
• How has the Waterloo encampment decision changed the approach to homelessness in your area?
• What work are you doing to connect housing and health?

Please see our invited speakers and presenters.

Speakers:

• Moderator: Al Fletcher, Manager, Investment in Affordable Housing/Neighbourhood Development at the City of Hamilton
• Abigail Bond, Executive Director of the Housing Secretariat, City of Toronto
• Nicole Cortese, Manager of Homelessness Operations, Regional Municipality of Niagara
• Lisa McIntosh, Director of Income Employment and Homelessness, Regional Municipality of Durham
• Tyler Venable, Manager, Housing Services, District of Nipissing Social Services Administration Board