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National Housing Day 2014

National Housing Day 2014. Reflections on the Past. Who Are We?. A network of like-minded individuals representing community agencies concerned with addressing the issues of affordable housing and homelessness in and surrounding Hastings County. Founding AHAN Members Include:.

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National Housing Day 2014

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  1. National Housing Day 2014 Reflections on the Past

  2. Who Are We? • A network of like-minded individuals representing community agencies concerned with addressing the issues of affordable housing and homelessness in and surrounding Hastings County.

  3. Founding AHAN Members Include: • Community Advocacy & Legal Centre • Three Oaks - Women’s Shelter • Hastings County Social Services • Youth Habilitation • Hastings County Housing Services • Canadian Mental Health Association • Hastings Housing Resource Centre

  4. AHAN Vision AHAN believes that everyone has a right to safe, secure and affordable housing

  5. Our Mission We will strive to create more affordable housing options for people who are precariously housed or homeless using a variety of approaches including: • collaborative networking • housing development • capacity building and; • advocacy

  6. AHAN National Housing Day Each year, the AHAN Information Network Committee dedicates its efforts to organize an event that brings our colleagues together from all areas of Hastings County. We focus on what is relevant in our community today and reflect on the challenges and successes of the past year.

  7. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation Canada's National Housing Agency • Working in partnership with AHAN and other local agencies to host National Housing Day events • Facilitating the creation of new affordable housing through CMHC tools and resources • Sharing innovative affordable housing solutions from across Ontario and Canada

  8. National Housing Day • November 22 is marked as National Housing Day across Canada – commemorating the day in 1998 when then-Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman and the mayors of Canada’s biggest cities adopted a Declaration from the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee to declare homelessness a national disaster. • The mayors, invoking their power to declare a state of emergency, called on the federal and provincial governments to take emergency actions to support homeless people

  9. Since then, the day has been adopted by community organizations across the country, municipalities and even Canada’s national housing agency (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation) as a day devoted to housing issues and housing solutions. • 9th year that AHAN has celebrated this day • Reflection of past events

  10. National Housing Day 2008, Belleville

  11. National Housing Day 2009, Belleville

  12. National Housing Day 2010 Quinte West

  13. National Housing Day 2010 Quinte West

  14. National Housing Day 2011, Belleville

  15. National Housing Day 2012Madoc

  16. National Housing Day 2012Madoc

  17. National Housing Day 2013, Belleville

  18. National Housing Day 2013 • Housing First • Poverty Round Table • All Roads Lead to Home • Pocket Housing

  19. Here we are today! Welcome Panel Members

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