Program

7:30-8:30am

8:30-8:45am

Breakfast

Welcome, Land Acknowledgement, Opening Remarks

• Robin Jones, AMO President 
• Minister Paul Calandra, Municipal Affairs and Housing (video remarks)

Advancing Community and Supportive Housing Collectively

• Today’s housing affordability and homelessness crisis warrants non-market housing solutions. Collectively governments must work together with sector partners to grow the community and supportive housing systems. There is a clear business case and return-on-investment for doing so.  Housing increases economic productivity and impacts other systems with savings including health, policing, and justice.

Moderator:

• Oliver Moore, Urban Affairs Reporter, The Globe and Mail

Speakers:

• Camille Quenneville, Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Mental Health Association -Ontario
• Ray Sullivan, Executive Director, Canadian Housing and Renewal Association 
• Rebekah Young, Vice President, Head of Inclusion and Resilience Economics, Scotiabank

Solve the Crisis Campaign Update

Speakers:

• Marianne Meed Ward, Chair, Ontario Big City Mayors and Mayor of Burlington

What you Need to Know About Community Housing 

• A panel of community housing experts will provide an overview of sector priorities and answer your questions about community housing. Current issues include the implementation of the provincial Community Housing Renewal framework given the end of mortgages. Learn what this means for the relationship between municipal service managers and housing providers. Ideas will be shared about how to grow the community housing system and ways to fund and finance it.

Speakers:

• Marlene Coffey, Executive Director, Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association 
• Amina Dibe, Senior Manager, Government Relations, Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada
• Judy Lightbound, Chief Business Development Officer, Housing Services Corporation
• Ken Ranta, Chief Executive Officer, Thunder Bay District Social Services Administration Board 

Municipal Leadership to End Homelessness through Housing Solutions 

• Municipalities and District Social Service Administration Boards in Ontario are formulating and implementing plans, strategies and innovative ways to help end homelessness through housing solutions. Case studies will highlight the mix of solutions along the housing spectrum that are required. Practical advice will be provided on how your community can act in a structured way with a systems approach to help end homelessness in your own community. 

Speakers:

• Alex Bierk, Councillor, City of Peterborough 
• Brian Marks, Chief Administrative Officer, Cochrane District Social Services Administration Board
• Danielle Neilson, Manager, Housing Stability Services, St. Thomas 

Partnering with the Health and Justice Sectors

• This session features examples of partnerships that demonstrate the positive links between sufficient community and supportive housing with improved health and justice outcomes.

Speakers:

• Whitney Kitchen, Coordinator of Housing Administration and Development, City of Windsor
• Angela Robertson, Executive Director, Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre 

Funding and Financing Housing 

• The Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation will provide an update and overview about Government of Canada initiatives to fund and finance housing in Ontario  

Speaker:

• Daniel Kingsbury, Senior Specialist – Municipal Relations, Canada Mortgage and Hosing Corporation
• Jeremy Tessier, Knowledge Transfer Specialist – Outreach, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

Indigenous Housing Solutions

• This session will feature presentations from Indigenous housing providers on the unique considerations for Indigenous housing solutions. This will include design considerations, collaboration opportunities, and how municipalities can work with partners to support Indigenous residents in community housing.

Speakers:

• Chelsea Combot, Director of Policy and Government Relations, Ontario Aboriginal Housing Services 
• Taylor Muloin, Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres 
• Mandy Tait-Martens, Assistant Director Community Services, Ontario Native Women’s Association 
• Taylor Adair, Manager of Housing, Ontario Native Women’s Association

Enabling Affordable Housing Development

• This session will feature case studies that highlight the planning, resources and tools that municipalities can leverage to encourage and enable affordable housing development in their communities. The ability of municipalities and District Social Service Administration Boards to attract developers to their communities will be addressed.

Speakers:

• Tania Dickson,Housing Services Manager, Bruce County
• Nyasha Harper-Michon, Director of Programs, CP Planning
• Tina Metcalfe, Director of Human Services, Bruce County
• Ashwin Vadivelu, Senior Director, Strategy & Origination, EllisDon Community Builders

7:30-8:30am

8:30-8:35am

Breakfast

Welcoming Remarks

8:35-8:50am

Government of Canada Action for Housing: Remarks by the Parliamentary Secretary

• Strategic priorities and plans for non-market housing will be shared from the government of Canada.

Speakers:

• Peter Fragiskatos, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities

Affordable Home Ownership

• A case study will be shared about an innovative program to facilitate affordable home ownership with a self-sustaining financing model. It comes complete with a community economic and revitalization component. 

Speakers:

• Mike Nadeau, Chief Administrative Officer, District of Sault Ste. Marie Social Services Administration Board.

Overcoming Barriers to Expanding Supportive Housing

• A panel of community experts will answer your questions about supportive housing and how to overcome barriers to growing the supportive housing system including development issues and confronting NIMBYism. The Return-on-Investment will also be discussed about how supportive housing can reduce reliance and costs on other systems including health, policing and ambulance.

Speakers:

• Chelsea Combot, Director of Policy and Government Relations, Ontario Aboriginal Housing Services 
• Mike Nadeau, Chief Administrative Officer, District of Sault Ste. Marie Social Services Administration Board  
• Lesley Nagoda, Executive Director, Services and Housing in the Province (SHIP)
• Karen O'Connor, Chief Executive Officer, Addictions and Mental Health Ontario

Coffee Break

Protecting and Growing Affordable Rental Housing Supply

• This panel will highlight measures that can be taken to ensure Ontario communities have the rental housing supply and market conditions required for successful tenancies that people can afford.  Topics covered will include approaches to acquisitions, eviction prevention, renoviction, demolitions, tenant protections, rent, vacancy controls and land trusts.

Speakers:

• Douglas Kwan, Director of Advocacy and Legal Services, Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario 
• Nat Pace, Network Director, Canadian Network of Community Land Trusts

Supporting People in Housing 

• The panel will offer insights on what is needed to support people in housing and how to prevent homelessness by improving housing and health outcomes.

Speakers:

• Ahmad Bonakdar, Senior Director of Research, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
• Ian Cummins, Director, Ontario Health Team Strategy, Ontario Health Agency

Lunch

Popcorn Session

• This session is an opportunity for attendees to reflect and share perspectives from their communities. Attendees are invited to share their thoughts, ideas, and further questions for AMO consideration with their peers in response to key discussion questions. 

Moderated by MC