"They’re all relieved now that we’ve gotten closer to going home. Residents are excited to just watch a movie in their room again. To sleep in their bed. To go back to the neighbourhood that is their community" says Jordan.

January 12, 2022 – Ottawa, ON - Cornerstone Housing for Women is set to return this month to its original shelter location in Centertown after thirteen months of temporary shelter solutions. Cornerstone will be returning with 53 women.

She’d been so happy when she told us she’d found an apartment, but now she was back at the reception desk at Cornerstone Housing for Women with tears in her eyes. She wouldn’t be moving after all. For the third time in just a few months, she lost an apartment when the rental company did a background check.