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All Rights Reserved.  \nINTRODUCTION  \nThis paper, focused on fostering the inclusion of immigrants in Ottawa’s housing communities, picks up on themes raised in the 2007 Canadian Housing and Renewal Association (CHRA) paper titled The Housing Needs of Immigrants and Refugees in Canada1. That paper presented 31 recommendations, including the 7 summarized here:  \n• The immigration category (skilled immigrant, family class, refugee) by which a newcomer enters Canada impacts settlement success, and supports and services should address this reality;  \n• Strong connections and partnerships between settlement services and housing providers, with emphasis on private landlords, produce better outcomes for newcomers;  \n• Housing help services need to be effectively promoted;  \n• The biggest housing-related barrier facing newcomer populations is high cost, made worse by a shortage of subsidized housing options;  \n• Services needed by immigrants are more effective settlement tools when located near immigrant-intensive housing communities, and when they are available in the newcomers’native languages;  \n• Expansion of rent-supplement programs can be effective where there are sufficient vacancies in the private rental market to accommodate them;  \n• Federal and provincial housing funding should encourage landlords to modify some existing homes to accommodate larger newcomer families.  \nThat these recommendations remain relevant is not surprising since more immigrants are arriving now than then, and Canada’s landlords are no better equipped to house them. Annual Canadian immigration has increased from 236,753 in 2007 to 257,515 in 2012, with a peak in 2010 of 280,6902. Core housing need has also increased from a low of 12. 3% in 2007 to 13. 5% in 200934. Together these trends suggest that housing challenges experienced by newcomers to Canada today are comparable to, and possibly more intense than, those experienced by newcomers in 2007.  \nAt the Canadian Housing and Renewal Association’s (CHRA) 2013 Annual Congress held in Ottawa, four local leaders spoke to the theme Fostering Inclusion and Creating Housing Options for Newcomers in Ottawa. This paper focuses on the work they do to support the economic, social and civic success of newcomers, and the critical role that affordable housing plays in this work. While these brief case studies are Ottawa-focused, the issues raised are pan-Canadian in scope and the lessons apply to cities and towns from coast to coast to coast.  \n1 Available for download from the CHRA website.  \n2 Citizenship and Immigration Canada  \n3 Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Canadian Housing Observer, 2012  \n4 2009 core housing need statistics are the most recent available.  \nCANADIAN HOUSING AND RENEWAL ASSOCIATION 1  \nAFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FOR NEWCOMERS  \nHelping newcomers to Canada settling in Ottawa to negotiate the local housing landscape has been a core function of immigrant-serving agencies since their creation, and remains their main housing focus today. Specific services include assistance with:  \n• local housing market orientation;  \n• finding and using rental listings;  \n• landlord relations and resolving landlord-tenant disputes;  \n• understanding what to look for in a home;  \n• navigating required paperwork;  \n• understanding and addressing legal and financial issues;  \n• establishing credit histories and other financial documents, required by many landlords;  \n• obtaining reference letters; and  \n• securing rental agreement co-signers (when necessary) .  \nClearly Ottawa’s immigrant-serving organizations are newcomer advisors, educators and advocates, but some also make direct i","cbCaivOSlJt7XXWf","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivOSlJt7XXWf","pdf",194649,"English","# Introduction\n## Affordable Housing Development for Newcomers\n## Services Offered by Immigrant-Serving Agencies\n## OCISO and OCISO Non-Profit Housing Corporation","[{\"question\":\"What is the paper’s main purpose regarding newcomers in Ottawa?\",\"answer\":\"To examine how to foster the inclusion of immigrants within Ottawa’s housing communities and to highlight the critical role of affordable housing in supporting newcomers’ economic, social, and civic success.\"},{\"question\":\"Which 2007 CHRA recommendations does the paper build on?\",\"answer\":\"It summarizes seven recommendations covering immigration-category impacts, partnerships between settlement services and housing providers, effective promotion of housing help, cost and subsidized-housing shortages, language accessibility, rent-supplement expansion, and housing-funding incentives to modify homes for larger newcomer families.\"},{\"question\":\"What kinds of housing-related services do immigrant-serving organizations provide?\",\"answer\":\"They provide local housing market orientation, help finding and using rental listings, support landlord relations and dispute resolution, guidance on what to look for in a home, assistance with paperwork, and help addressing legal and financial issues, credit documentation, reference letters, and rental agreement co-signers when needed.\"}]","Fostering Inclusion for Newcomers to Ottawa - A CHRA Congress Session Case Study | PDF",1789967983,25]