Newcomers to Canada are making up a bigger part of Ottawa's homeless population, while a smaller portion of homeless Ottawans ...

Time” count of the homeless in late October counted nearly 3,000 individuals, representing nearly 80 per cent more than a ...

Ottawa city councillors have passed a motion to accelerate a move to loosen zoning rules for shelters in all but rural ...

Figuring out how many people in Ottawa are homeless and living rough at any given moment is an imprecise science, but a recent city estimate put it in the neighbourhood of 260. The 60-year-old ...

Last October, the City of Ottawa spent 24 hours tallying the number of people experiencing homelessness in what it calls a "point-in-time" count. It also conducted a survey to learn more about who in ...

Ottawa’s latest Point-in-Time count gives an inside look at the demographics that make up the city’s nearly 3,000 people living on the streets. The count was also supplemented by a survey to better ...

Leo, who serves as communications director at the Ottawa Mission ... his own history as a teenager living on the streets in Kingston. “When you’re homeless, people don’t look at you the ...

The survey was part of a point-in-time count conducted over 24 hours last October, which found there were 2,952 homeless people in Ottawa — an increase of more than 300 people since ... because they ...

Heron Road and Bernard Grandmaître will be used for the homeless until “overflow capacity is secured,” according to a city memo. The city is working to extend its lease at the Lanark Road ...