Steve Beckta - Owner, Beckta Restaurant Group

“The Beckta Restaurant Group is proud to support the amazing efforts of the Starts With Home campaign, in their quest to remedy one of the great challenges of our time. This work is more critical now than ever, and we hope that the Starts With Home campaign is successful in the quest to remedy the unfortunate homeless situation that plagues too many of our urban centres in one of the wealthiest countries in the world.”  

Deirdre Freiheit - President & CEO, Shepherds of Good Hope

"Safe, affordable housing is the solution to homelessness and housing need. We support the Starts With Home campaign because there are solutions, but it will take all of us together pushing for a city where everyone has a home."

Debbie Owusu-Akyeeah - Executive Director, Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity

"Across Canada, 2SLGBTQ+ youth are drastically overrepresented in the homeless population. Housing is an issue that affects our communities but also many others. The struggles of queer and trans people who can't find housing they can afford are shared by migrant families who face mass evictions, Black, Indigenous, and other people of colour who are homeless, disabled people alienated by group home bylaws, and by all 12 000 people in Ottawa waiting for affordable housing."