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Invest in a Housing Forever Bond to help fund the preservation of affordable housing and make a difference in Ottawa’s housing crisis.

The Ottawa Community Land Trust (OCLT) with Centretown Citizens Ottawa Corporation (CCOC) have launched the 2025 Housing Forever Bond campaign.

Working together

Two leading Ottawa non-profits, the Ottawa Community Land Trust (OCLT) and Centretown Citizens Ottawa Corporation (CCOC), have come together to launch a bold new initiative – The Housing Forever Bonds campaign – uniting their missions to protect and expand affordable housing in Ottawa.

To meet the growing demand for affordable housing in Ottawa, via preservation and new development, OCLT and CCOC are together marketing Housing Forever Bonds – a shared community bond campaign allowing individuals and institutions to invest directly in the future of housing in their city.

Investors will be able to invest in OCLT bonds, CCOC bonds or both.

Campaign Goal - $25 million.

The total goal is $25 million. OCLT's bond goal is $10 million, and CCOC's goal is $15 million.

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About OCLT & Housing Forever Bonds

The Ottawa Community Land Trust (OCLT) is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving affordable housing in Ottawa. We work in partnership with Ottawa-area housing providers and developers, purchase existing rental properties, and ensure they are rented at an affordable price forever.

Ottawa, like many cities, is experiencing a housing crisis. We lost more than 30,000 private rental units with rents below $1,000 a month between 2011-2023, and the number of similar units has continued to decline (Steve Pomeroy, McMaster University, 2023). Ottawa does not have a program to preserve low-rent housing.

The local community housing sector created the OCLT and became federally incorporated in January 2021. Overseen by a board of directors and small staff, we are membership-based.

Simply put, as a community land trust, we are trusted to hold land for the community.

Our work to date has been made possible by sponsors, donors, and purchasers of Housing Forever Bonds. Financial tools, such as community bonds enable us to buy more residential rental properties.

With your purchase of a Housing Forever Bond, we can help keep housing affordable forever.

Our Impact So Far:

In 2023, we bought our first residential building, a six-unit apartment building on Kirkwood Avenue in Ottawa’s Carlington neighbourhood. The purchase was made possible by a loan, a municipal grant, and a generous donation. As a result, tenants of this building will continue to pay affordable rent.

We are working closely with the community housing sector in Ottawa to develop innovative housing solutions, such as co-development on vacant land.

We are advocates for affordable housing. We are part of the “Starts with Home” campaign, led by the Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa. We aim to protect renters and preserve affordable housing through local non-profit housing providers.