A Home for Every Hero in Fort McMurray

Funding provided through Reaching Home: Canada’s Homelessness Strategy.

Fort McMurray, Alberta is proud to have achieved Functional Zero Veteran Homelessness thanks to collaborative efforts with Built For Zero Canada and other partners. This important milestone means that Veterans in the community of Fort McMurray are able to access safe and affordable housing.

Fort McMurray's journey is marked by strategic planning and swift action. Working closely with partners, the community created tools to promptly identify and assist Veterans experiencing homelessness. This proactive approach ensures that Veterans in need are quickly connected with appropriate housing and services, minimizing the occurrence of Veteran homelessness.

Beyond its local impacts, Fort McMurray's achievement serves as a blueprint for reducing and ending homelessness in other communities across Canada. It proves that with dedication, collaboration, and effective strategies, it’s possible to address and end homelessness.

The success of Fort McMurray in reducing Veteran homelessness is a testament to the importance of ongoing collaboration and commitment from the Government of Canada and other stakeholders. Together, we can build a more inclusive future where everyone has a place to call home.

Quick facts:

• Fort McMurray, Alberta joins London, Ontario, and St. Thomas-Elgin, Ontario, as communities that have reached Functional Zero Veteran Homelessness.
• Reaching Home delivers funding for the implementation of Coordinated Access through the program’s Community Capacity and Innovation funding stream, allowing communities to bring consistency to the way that people experiencing or at-risk of homelessness access housing and related services within a geographic area.
• Reaching Home: Canada’s Homelessness Strategy was launched in 2019. It supports the goals of the National Housing Strategy and aims to reduce chronic homelessness in Canada.
• Since April 2019, Reaching Home has funded nearly 7,000 projects, which have provided over 125,000 people with homelessness prevention services such as emergency rental assistance and family/landlord mediation; and over 71,000 with housing placement services.

For more information, visit:

• The Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness
• Reaching Home: Canada's Homelessness Strategy