03/16/2026
CCA wins accolades for being welcoming
Earlier this month city councillors praised the CCA for welcoming homeless families.
“The Centretown Community Association continues to blow me away,’ Councillor Ariel Troster told city council’s Finance and Corporate Services Committee. “They set the gold standard in how to welcome new people to our community.”
The CCA is strongly supportive of the city’s purchase of a former hotel at Gladstone and O’Connor to provide housing for families needing a place until they can find permanent housing they can afford.
The purchase of the former hotel at 377 O'Connor seems a good deal. It provides 128 units with kitchens and the federal government is paying 95 percent of the $47-million cost.
Mary Huang, chair of the CCA’s Housing Affordability Working Group, presented to councillors. “This is a no-brainer,” said Huang. “It makes financial sense and provides a better quality of housing for many families.”
A city staffer emphasized the new facility will be carefully integrated into the community, with 24/7 on-site staffing, to “make sure issues are addressed in a prompt manner.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-LHG-2nHaU
starting at 3:49 for city presentation and
3:58 for Mary Huang’s delegation on behalf of CCA
Thanks to Mary Huang from the Centretown Community Association’s Housing Affordability Working Group for coming to Finance Committee today, to voice support for the city’s acquisition of the hotel at O’Connor and Gladstone for family transitional housing.
It warms my heart to see how our community association is pushing for compassionate solutions to homelessness. Everyone deserves a home.
