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This spring, CCOC sent out surveys to all tenants to get your feedback about renting from us. We want to know if we’re doing a good job – so we started by asking you what you think. We were amazed by your responses. We got 38% of our surveys back, representing 587 CCOC homes. We’ve […]

On Tuesday, June 21, CCOC hosted an announcement about new funding for affordable housing in Ontario. The event featured the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Federal Minister of Families, Children and Social Development and the Honourable Chris Ballard, Ontario’s Minister of Housing and Minister responsible for the Poverty Reduction Strategy. The Ministers signed a renewed Investing in Affordable […]

This speech was originally delivered on behalf of CCOC President Bill Rooney at CCOC’s 2016 AGM on May 19, 2016. CCOC’s Mission is to create, maintain and promote housing for low and moderate income people. That’s an important statement, as much for what it says as for what it doesn’t say. It doesn’t say “promote […]

CCOC hosted the launch of the City of Ottawa’s new recycling bag initiative at our 464 Metcalfe property on September 2, 2015. Mayor Jim Watson and City Councillor David Chernushenko (Capital Ward) announced the City’s new offer which will make recycling bags available to apartment buildings and other multi-residential buildings until December 2015. We’re excited to see recycling […]

Several decades have passed since Carl Dow impatiently waited to learn how to fly, and Beaver Barracks has been transformed. What was once a World War II military barracks and mess hall in the 1940s is now home to 254 households in downtown Ottawa. We couldn’t be more proud of CCOC’s newest property… But one thing […]

This is a speech by Brian Atkinson, CCOC President 1975-76, delivered at our 10th birthday party in August 1984. It blew us away seeing how much is still relevant today, so we decided to share it. Who would have believed back in 1974 that we’d all be sitting here in the National Arts Centre, celebrating C.C.O.C’s […]

CCOC has had its eye on the Beaver Barracks property at Catherine, Metcalfe and Argyle for over twenty years. When we won the City’s request for proposals in July 2007, we were thrilled. And then we all got to work! For the past five years, everyone at CCOC – volunteers, tenants and staff – has […]

CCOC built our first building at 50 James Street in 1979. This five storey building with twenty-two apartments has nine planter boxes where tenants grow vegetables, herbs and flowers. In the late 70’s and 80’s, under the National Housing Act funding, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) would fund green roofs and planter box gardens […]