Providing low barrier, people-centered support rooted in anti-oppressive & harm reduction practice to folks of all genders experiencing high barriers to housing
Kjipuktuk / Halifax
Joined February 2013
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We want to acknowledge the recent changes in OTC’s operations. As we navigate this transition, we’re taking a temporary pause from monitoring or engaging with comments on our platforms.
We thank you for your ongoing patience and support.
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Join us for our AGM. Wed., June 25th, 2025 at 6 pm. Hear about our work of the last year while looking to the year ahead. We’re looking for new board members & welcome folks to join us & learn more! Register at [email protected] to receive the link to join us online.
WE’RE HIRING!! Go to linktr.ee/outofthecoldhfx for our current job openings in Halifax& Dartmouth. OTC Community Association’s Supportive Housing programs support folks who have been chronically unhoused and who experience high barriers to maintaining independent housing.
Volunteer to garden with us!
Help us supplement our meal programming with our own fresh veggies. Have some time to dedicate to our gardens? Visit linktr.er/outofthecoldhfx to sign up through ivolunteer or contact Libby - [email protected] or 902-789-3713
Thank you!! ❤️
Join us for our AGM. Wed., June 25th, 2025 at 6 pm. Hear about our work of the last year while looking to the year ahead. We’re looking for new board members & welcome folks to join us & learn more! Register at [email protected] to receive the link to join us online.
Out of the Cold Community Association retweeted
UPDATE – Boil Water Advisory
There was an internal electrical issue at the Pockwock treatment facility. We are still investigating what happened, but the priority ensuring our customer have clean, safe drinking water
Please continue to boil water if you are in the impacted area.
For more information: halifaxwater.ca/notice/boil-…
TONITE! Please join us for our Annual General Meeting! Together we’ll look back over the last year before looking forward into our future. Stay after for some coffee, tea and chat. Hope to see you there!
Out of the Cold Community Association retweeted
you need to replace the entire illicit drug supply with regulated substances accessible to all. twenty-two Canadians will die every day from drug prohibition until you do.
At Health Committee, @guyfelicella explains why you can’t force someone into treatment who isn’t ready. We need to meet people where they’re at with treatment AND harm reduction services.
Conservative slogans don’t save lives – health care does.
#HESA #cndpoli
With New Residents moving in we’re looking for flat screen tvs for resident rooms. You can also donate a fire stick to a resident by ordering one from our Amazon Wishlist.
If you have a flat screen tv you’d like to rehome, please email us [email protected]
Thanks!!
Link to our Amazon Wishlist.
amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/ls/2I9…
Out of the Cold Community Association retweeted
With homelessness in the news & the subject of many funding announcements, it's a good time to run a refresher on some key terms used when discussing the housing crisis and the right to housing. We’re going to start with ‘Diversion’.
#housing #housingisahumanright
Out of the Cold Community Association retweeted
With each announcement of shelters & other temporary measures, pls remember that none of this is ‘housing’. Being inside offers a level of dignity & safety to many, but we cannot normalize this as being a solution to the housing crisis. HOUSING first-for everyone-is the answer.
New Supportive Housing, Pallet Village Location news.novascotia.ca/en/2024/0…
ALT Graphic of a home next to the words: New supports for people experiencing homelessness
Join us at our AGM on Wednesday, June 26th at 6:00pm. There will be an online link to join us from home for those who can’t make it in person. We are looking for new board members and welcome folks to join us and learn more! Hope to see you there!
Out of the Cold Community Association retweeted
At last night’s Council mtg, Mayor Savage said “We can’t allow homelessness to be normalized.”
It’s been normalized here for years as successive govts have skirted their responsibilities, refusing to dive in on the ONE solution – housing!
Shelters are not housing. 1/2
Interested in Volunteering with OTC but want more info? Drop in to one of our monthly volunteer info sessions! This is your chance to learn more about us & ask all of your questions :) Go to our Ivolunteer page to reserve your spot or email Alyson at [email protected]
Out of the Cold Community Association retweeted
Who exactly is asking for a "new right to live in encampments"?
Ppl in encampments don't want to be evicted from them when there's nowhere to go. No long term adequate affordable housing. For that reason they've used the courts for the right to remain until appropriate housing is available to them.
Courts have replied by saying that evicting ppl from encampments when there are no shelter spaces or only inappropriate spaces violates the right to life under the Charter.
Most ppl I've spoken to in encampments want their right to housing realized - a right enshrined in int'l law and encoded in the National Housing Act.
100%
“…the answer is not a new right to live in encampments... it will be yet another Band-Aid that confines vulnerable people to perpetual misery … We need to give them a right to decent housing.” ottawacitizen.com/opinion/co…
Out of the Cold Community Association retweeted
The evidence is clear: public harm reduction programs dramatically increase survival and reduce social/medical harms while honouring people's autonomy. And they must go further — they can't be undermined by unscientific, purely ideological reasoning. cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/sa…
