DCarr Community Solutions was instrumental in bringing the Ottawa Community Land Trust into being. We completed the business plan to launch the Land Trust including seed funding applications, and Dennis Carr was a founding Board member. 

The Ottawa Community Land Trust (OCLT), launched in December 2021, is a social enterprise pursuing innovative ways of preserving housing affordability in the national capital region. They:

• acquire existing rental properties and turn them into non-profit affordable housing

• secure vacant land to develop various types of affordable housing in the future, and

• work with other local groups—from housing providers to developers—that are committed to keeping housing affordable forever.