by Team Stittsville | May 23, 2023 | Information
La version française suit The City’s Community Services Committee today approved proposed spending for 2023 and 2024 under the provincial Homelessness Prevention Program. The City would invest its $48.5 million in provincial funding as follows: Street and community...
by Team Stittsville | May 3, 2023 | Information
La version française suit The City’s Planning and Housing Committee today received a report called Our City Starts with Home, which could help inform future policies and actions aimed at increasing the supply of affordable housing in Ottawa. The report presents...
by Glen Gower | Apr 27, 2023 | Information, Notebook
La version française suit This week, Mayor Sutcliffe wrote to Premier Ford with an urgent request regarding funding for supportive housing and homelessness programs. (A copy of the letter is included below.) The 2023 Ontario budget allocated an additional...
by Glen Gower | Dec 8, 2022 | Notebook
La version française suit At the start of Wednesday’s 7-hour City Council meeting, every councillor had five minutes to share some “opening remarks” to colleagues at the start of the new term. I shared three priorities for Stittsville: Revitalizing...
by Glen Gower | Nov 26, 2022 | Development, Notebook
La version française suit Changes to development charges in the Provincial government’s new Bill 23 will mean a loss of tens of millions of dollars of revenue for the City of Ottawa in the coming years. That’s the conclusion of the City’s Chief...