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Shepherds of Good Hope to build supportive housing on Montreal Road

by Jennifer McIntosh, Ottawa East News
Jan 05, 2018




Stephen Bartolo, vice-president of operations for the Shepherds of Good Hope, says he hopes to see shovels in the ground on their latest project – a 42-unit supportive housing facility planned for 765 Montreal Rd.

Bartolo said the facility will cost between $9 million and 10 million and was funded through a request for proposals with the city.

The project is aimed at providing housing and supports for the chronically homeless.

It’s one of three projects to receive funding through a request for proposals under the Action Ottawa program.

The facilities chosen are a 148-unit mixed income, affordable-housing complex at 811 Gladstone Ave. to be built by the Ottawa Community Housing Corporation and eight city-wide condominium units under the banner of the Canadian Mental Health Association.

A team of city staff and external members selected the projects, according to an emailed response attributed to Shelley VanBuskirk, director of housing services.

The funding comes from two different streams.

Up to $10 million was available from a pot of money called Investment in Affordable Housing for Ontario – there’s to be $48.3 million doled out between 2014 and 2020. In that same vein, the Social Infrastructure Fund was set up to offer $19.2 million between 2017 and 2019.

Up to a total of $8 million in capital funding was available from a new Government of Ontario program called Home for Good – specifically aimed at supportive-housing initiatives.

The Shepherds already operate supportive housing units in Kanata and on Merivale Road.

Bartolo said the site on Montreal Road, near the Montfort Hospital, is ideal because of the proximity to transit and other social services – not to mention the hospital.

Shepherds hosted two town halls in the fall 0f 2017 to help address some of the community’s potential concerns.

Rideau-Rockcliffe Coun. Tobi Nussbaum said the commitment to community consultation is what sets the development apart from the planned mega-shelter to be operated by the Salvation Army at 333 Montreal Rd.

“It’s a much smaller facility, and it’s supportive housing, which also sets it apart,” Nussbaum said.

Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury is also in support of the Shepherds facility, saying a supportive-housing or housing-first model is the direction the city wants to move in.

“We want to be funding the bricks-and-mortar building and getting out of the operation,” he said, adding the Shepherds of Good Hope has stayed on top of the shift in delivery model when it comes to caring for the city’s most vulnerable.

Fleury said to keep pace with the city’s 10-year homelessness plan, the city needs to review how it funds shelter stays and new affordable housing builds.

Bartolo said Shepherds has already been doing their own homework on clients who are staying at shelters long-term or habitually returning.

“We want to get them out of the shelter,” Bartolo said. “This isn’t transitional.”

Bartolo said there would be at least two staff onsite at the facility at all times, but he wasn’t clear on how many would be present at peak times.

When designing the concept for the building, the key considerations were a good mix of private and public, as well as lounge-type space for the clients.

Shepherds staff will meet with the city to “finalize things in the new year,” Bartolo said.

If everything goes as planned, the first clients will move in by late 2019 or early 2020.

Jennifer McIntosh is the political reporter for Metroland Media¹s Ottawa papers. She can be reached at jennifer.mcintosh@metroland.com. Follow her on Twitter and
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Email: jennifer.mcintosh@metroland.com


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New affordable housing projects pegged for Centretown, Montreal Road

Matthew Pearson, Ottawa Citizen
Published on: January 5, 2018 | Last Updated: January 5, 2018 4:17 PM EST


About 200 new affordable and supportive housing units will be built in Ottawa over the coming years, thanks to the latest cash injection from upper-tier governments.

Of the three projects that received the green light last month as part of the Action Ottawa program, the largest is slated for Centretown, where an eight-storey, 148-unit mixed-income building will be constructed by Ottawa Community Housing at 811 Gladstone Ave., between Booth and Rochester streets.

The project secured $11 million in government grants, as well as $1.5 million in fee waivers and other incentives from the City of Ottawa.

The site currently contains 26 townhouses that were built more than 50 years ago and have reached the end of their service life, according to OCH. Most of the residents have either moved out or are in the process of moving. The housing provider, which serves more than 32,000 residents in approximately 15,000 homes across the city, says its Gladstone Avenue tenants were offered alternate housing options within OCH’s portfolio.

OCH plans to demolish the three buildings once all the units are vacant, ideally by July, and begin construction soon after. The goal is to have the new building substantially complete by the spring of 2020.

OCH couldn’t put a total price tag on the project yet because it is still working out the details of apartment size and various energy efficiency elements.

Across town, the Shepherds of Good Hope will construct a 42-unit supportive housing building at 765 Montreal Rd., just east of Montfort Hospital.

The non-profit secured $6.3 million from the federal and provincial governments, as well as $739,000 in municipal waivers and incentives, toward the total cost, which is between $9 million and $10 million.

Shepherds already operates supportive housing buildings on Merivale Road and in Kanata.

Unlike the 350-bed Salvation Army shelter proposed for 333 Montreal Rd., which failed to win the support of several local city councillors, the Shepherds project got a thumbs up from both Rideau-Rockcliffe Coun. Tobi Nussbaum and Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury.

“It’s a much smaller facility and it’s supportive housing, which sets it apart,” Nussbaum told Ottawa News East.

Clients could move into the new Shepherds facility in late 2019 or early 2020.

The third project will see the Ottawa branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association acquire eight new condominium units across the city, where people will live independently with some support.

The CMHA secured $1.2 million in federal and provincial grants.

The city’s housing services branch last summer launched a search for organizations to develop new affordable or supportive rental housing.

According to director Shelley VanBuskirk, up to $10 million in capital funding was available from the federal/provincial Affordable Housing for Ontario program, as well as another possible $8 million from a new provincial program called Home for Good.

Through the Home for Good initiative, the city has received $19.6 million over three years to build supportive housing for people experiencing chronic homelessness, as well as youth, Indigenous people and those left homeless following transitions from provincially funded institutions, such as hospitals or prisons.

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Checking out this stretch of Montreal Road on Streetview, it's really been developing lately. I see a cluster of new developments just to the west of this site. And the Rockcliffe CFB site is just down the road. Too bad the area is not serviced by mass transit.
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Checking out this stretch of Montreal Road on Streetview, it's really been developing lately. I see a cluster of new developments just to the west of this site. And the Rockcliffe CFB site is just down the road. Too bad the area is not serviced by mass transit.
And not even well-served by unmass transit.
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Feds to spend $3.65M on 42-unit affordable housing project in Ottawa

By: OBJ staff
Published: Jun 10, 2019 4:49pm EDT




The Shepherds of Good Hope will receive more than $3.65 million from the federal government for a new project to provide housing for Ottawa’s homeless population.

The feds announced the funding Monday for the Shepherds’ Montreal Road Supportive Housing Build. The contribution comes from the National Housing Co-Investment Fund, a 10-year, $7.45-billion investment plan announced in May of last year. In order to qualify for the program, projects must have a minimum of 20 affordable units and include a 25 per cent decrease in energy consumption and emissions in relation to the latest national energy code.

The $11-million Montreal Road project, which has also received funding from the province and city, will provide 42 affordable housing units to individuals facing ongoing homelessness and who require 24-hour access to health services, as referred by shelters in the city.

The Shepherds of Good Hope broke ground on the four-storey building, located at 765 Montreal Rd., late last month. The build will be the Shepherds’ fifth supportive housing residence and is expected to be ready for occupancy in early 2020.

OBJ’s 2018 Giving Guide reported that Ottawa lost 7,000 affordable housing units priced below $750 per month between 2011 and 2016 – either due to rent hikes, demolition or repurposing – but gained only 1,033 over the same period.

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Excavation is complete and they are preparing to pour the footings. That's quite the grade change to the neighbouring house.







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Sooo, no progress other than windows since April? Might the project be in financial trouble?
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I've seen pictures of the final product......it looks better with the plywood . LOL
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Sooo, no progress other than windows since April? Might the project be in financial trouble?
Covid construction pause?
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I think social housing and homeless housing initiatives like this do themselves a huge disservice when they opt to spend as little as possible on the architecture of their buildings. I went past this project this afternoon and the materials look so cheap. Of course they are on extremely tight budgets, but you would think that they would want to blend in a bit better. I think that most neighbourhood residents realize that the people housed here (and in other projects like this) desperately need a place to live, but the total lack of architectural appeal - the willful design of a building that doesn't even try to look appealing and fit into a community - only serves to give the neighbourhood one more reason to resent them moving in.



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I think social housing and homeless housing initiatives like this do themselves a huge disservice when they opt to spend as little as possible on the architecture of their buildings. I went past this project this afternoon and the materials look so cheap. Of course they are on extremely tight budgets, but you would think that they would want to blend in a bit better. I think that most neighbourhood residents realize that the people housed here (and in other projects like this) desperately need a place to live, but the total lack of architectural appeal - the willful design of a building that doesn't even try to look appealing and fit into a community - only serves to give the neighbourhood one more reason to resent them moving in.



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While I agree with you, the political reality compels the least visible expenditure of public funds.

In another lifetime I recall handling a written complaint from a taxpayer regarding a local office’s fleet vehicle. It was a Mercury Sable. The taxpayer wrote to the Minister that he himself could not afford such a luxury car and had to make due with a Ford Taurus. So why couldn’t the overpaid and underworked public servants do the same, he asked.

In researching the response to the complainant I discovered that the Mercury Sable was sold by a local dealership and that Ford of Canada had invoked “bid assistance” that lowered the sale price of this particular Mercury Sable to $4,000 less than a stripper Taurus.

Nevertheless, the point was made and there were no more Mercury Sables purchased for fleet vehicles.
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At least EIFS has come a long way since the 90's. Hopefully the parapet wonkyness doesn't contribute to future peeling and water leaks.

This brings to mind the building at Parkdale and Wellington with the same cheap cladding that unfortunately needed the entire building exterior to be replaced not too long ago...

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While I agree with you, the political reality compels the least visible expenditure of public funds.

In another lifetime I recall handling a written complaint from a taxpayer regarding a local office’s fleet vehicle. It was a Mercury Sable. The taxpayer wrote to the Minister that he himself could not afford such a luxury car and had to make due with a Ford Taurus. So why couldn’t the overpaid and underworked public servants do the same, he asked.

In researching the response to the complainant I discovered that the Mercury Sable was sold by a local dealership and that Ford of Canada had invoked “bid assistance” that lowered the sale price of this particular Mercury Sable to $4,000 less than a stripper Taurus.

Nevertheless, the point was made and there were no more Mercury Sables purchased for fleet vehicles.
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