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Veterans’ House Canada has launched the $25M Helping Homeless Veterans Campaign. Our goal is to build 4 more permanent residences, with supportive programs, to assist a significant proportion of the 3,000 – 5,000 homeless veterans in need across Canada. The first building opened on February 1st, 2021 in Ottawa. Based on need and local support, cities under consideration include Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and Victoria.

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A message from the Premier of Ontario

Why are there homeless veterans?

Veterans have served and sacrificed in countless ways, yet circumstances beyond their control have left many of them without stable and affordable housing.

Veterans often end up homeless for a range of reasons, which include a lack of affordable housing, poverty, health problems, job loss or instability, and family and marital breakdowns. Veterans are also likely to experience problems with alcohol and drugs as they deal with the loss of identity and camaraderie from their military life.

Helping Homeless veterans

Our heroes served and put their lives on the line. It is unacceptable that any veteran should find themselves homeless. This is a solvable problem – and as Canadians, we have a duty of care to help bring homelessness among veterans to an end.

On average, 4.4% of people experiencing homelessness in Canadian cities are veterans

The type of support most frequently requested by homeless veterans is permanent supportive housing

*2021 Ottawa PiT Count

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Veterans’ House: the Andy Carswell Building, Canso Campus, Ottawa

The Andy Carswell Building is Canada’s first residential complex purpose-built exclusively for veterans. It comprises 40 bachelor units for veterans who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

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