Ottawa Community Housing

About Ottawa Community Housing

Ottawa Community Housing (OCH) offers approximately 15,000 homes to about 32,000 tenants, including seniors, families, individuals, and people with disabilities. These homes are located in various communities throughout Ottawa and house a diverse population with different languages, cultures, and ethnicities. OCH is Ottawa’s primary community housing provider, managing two-thirds of the city’s housing portfolio and ranking as the second largest in Ontario. In 2024, OCH earned recognition for the seventh consecutive year as one of the National Capital Region’s Top Employers.  

The Corporation operates at arm’s length from the City of Ottawa, our sole Shareholder. OCH collaborates with nearly 100 community and private sector partners to serve and support OCH residents. The OCH portfolio of apartments in low-rise and high-rise apartment buildings, townhouses, row houses, detached houses and rooming houses is 90% social and community housing rentals (deep affordability) and 10% affordable housing (below-average market rent & average market rent). 

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About ARRIV Properties

ARRIV Properties represents a new concept to fill the Ottawa affordable rental market gap. ARRIV Properties is a new banner for OCH’s affordable housing rentals. It offers homes at average or below-average market prices, setting the standard for modern living and lifestyle at an affordable price. It is an exciting milestone because it signals another offering in the housing continuum by providing apartments and townhomes at affordable prices for low- to moderate-income households.

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In 2024, OCH introduced its 2024-2027 Strategic Plan

Vision: Changing Lives by Providing a Place to Call Home

Mission: More Than a Home Because We CARE

Strategic Priorities

• Build and Preserve

• Client Experience

• Partner and Support

• Innovate and Grow

Our Values

Collaboration: We work purposefully together across OCH departments, with tenants, and partners, by listening, and sharing to improve our communities. 

Accountability: We take ownership and responsibility for our decisions, management of our assets and resources, with integrity and transparency. 

Respect: We promote the dignity of all people and value equity and inclusiveness in our behaviours and our commitment to building authentic and trusting relationships.  

Excellence: We strive to be leaders through exceptional service, innovation, adaptability, and professionalism by empowering our people.

Read more:  https://www.och-lco.ca/corporate-information/och-strategic-plan/

Areas of Expertise & Knowledge for Peer Exchange

ORGANIZATIONAL RENEWAL

• Update to mission/vision

• Develop/deliver new strategic plan

• Senior management or Board membership

• Recruiting key skills sets in staff and Board

DEVELOPMENT

• Partnerships and joint ventures

• Financing

• Mixed model developments

• Innovative construction and design

ASSET RENEWAL

• Asset Management Planning

• Regeneration and Revitalization of housing asset