Using Technology to Help Ontarians
A rights-based space for Housing First, housing supports, housing rights, and social justice ideas and tools. Lived experience, frontline insight, and developer skills all belong here.
🙋 For everyone with an idea
Saw a gap in shelters, legal help, benefits navigation, safety planning, or tenant rights? You don’t need a GitHub account. Describe the problem or the tool you wish existed — in plain language.
Submit an idea💻 For developers & builders
Prototype Housing First apps, OSINT helpers for case work, rights calculators, directory features, or accessibility improvements. Browse the console, tools, and Ghost project — then send ideas back through the form.
Open console🎯 Focus areas
🏠 Housing First
Housing is the starting point, not a reward for compliance. Ideas that reduce barriers to keys, retention, and choice.
🤝 Supports & resources
Shelters, food, income (OW/ODSP), mental health, CAS, coordinated access, print-only field tools that store nothing about a person.
⚖️ Housing rights
Human Rights Code primacy, RTA, SPP, accommodation, eviction response, LTB navigation, legal aid pathways.
✊ Social justice apps
Tools that centre dignity, anti-oppression, Indigenous services, VAW/IPV safety, youth, newcomers, and disability justice.
🚀 Quick links
🖥️ OSINT / field console
Ontario courts, LTB, launchers, rent guideline helper — for tech-curious workers and developers.
Open Live →📋 Toolkit (field desk)
Print-only Housing First worksheets. Nothing about a person is stored.
Open Toolkit🎨 Themes (including Matrix rain)
Pick a look from the top bar. Preference is saved in this browser.
- Console / Calm / Midnight / Forest / High Contrast — professional field desk styles
- Matrix Rain — animated digital rainfall (classic geek mode)
- Cyberpunk — neon magenta / violet
- Terminal — green-on-black monospace
📬 Contact
Prefer email over the form?
[email protected]
Phone: 613-663-2399
emergencyhousing.ca
Or use the Share your idea page — plain language is enough. Coding knowledge is optional.