Program

8:30–9:00          Arrival & Coffee

9:00–9:10          Welcome & Land Acknowledgment

9:10–9:40          Keynote Address

Kaite Burkholder Harris, Executive Director at the Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa   

9:40–9:50          Break

9:50–10:45        Panel 1 – The Housing Affordability Crisis: Data & Policies

Andrew Crosby, Carleton University, Geography & Environmental Studies

Sajidul Quayum, Policy Analyst, Supportive Housing Policy Directorate

Mack Long, National Coordinator, National Indigenous Homelessness

10:45–10:55      Break

10:55–11:55      Panel 2 – Lived Experience & Community Solutions

Sahada Alolo, Director of Community Engagement, Multifaith Housing Initiative

John Heckbert, Executive Director, Operation Come Home

Rob Boyd, Chief Executive Officer, Ottawa Inner City Health

Lucky Dykstra-Santos, MSW Graduate Student, Carleton University  

11:55–12:55      Networking Lunch

12:55–1:50        Panel 3 – Action Roundtable: Pathways Forward, Policies & Partnerships

Sara Cooper, Chief Executive Officer, Habitat for Humanity – Ottawa

Michele Biss, Executive Director, The National Right to Housing Network

Jacqueline Kennelly, Professor, Sociology and Anthropology

Director, A Safe and Affordable Place to Call Home, Carleton University

1:50–2:00 Closing Remarks & “What We’ll Do Next.”