Calgary Housing Advocacy

Hello to all of our nonprofit friends and colleagues in Calgary! While this post is particularly for you, we know housing and affordability are issues that are coming to a head in many communities and our post might be of interest to nonprofits in other locations concerned with the current affordability crisis.  

In June 2022, City Council enlisted a group of experts from diverse backgrounds on a Housing and Affordability Task Force that made several recommendations to council in June 2023, which did not pass, but will instead be revisited at committee on September 14th. We would like to see Council vote in favour of the whole suite of recommendations.  

Nonprofits are a major employer of thousands of Calgarians (women and newcomers in particular) and our employees need safe, affordable, appropriate housing. The fact is that Calgary, like many municipalities in Canada, is facing an affordability crisis. We have an opportunity to make a real difference with these recommendations on housing to keep Calgary affordable and from falling into a serious housing crisis.  

CCVO has drafted a letter to Council, asking them to accept the recommendations of the Task Force, and we are asking Calgary nonprofits to co-sign this letter. You can review the draft letter here. Contact us by August 31 if your nonprofit would like to co-sign with us and a chorus of others in asking Council to pass these recommendations to ensure that we can keep Calgary affordable for the essential nonprofit employees in our sector.  

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