If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 911.
Visit The Dream Team Resources page for a list of mental health and housing supports and services.
External Links
Crime Prevention Ottawa Home Takeovers
Community Safety Units - Safety officers for Toronto Community Housing.
Find your Neighbourhood Community Officer - Toronto Police Services
Example of a HUTs Organizational Policy - Thank you to Evangel Hall Mission for allowing us to share their Home Unit Takeovers Policy
HUTs Video Series Playlist
Resources to Print
Boundaries and House Rules Activity PDF- Activity for tenants to identify boundaries in their life and help them set rules for their home.
Blank House Rules PDF- For use with the House Rules activity.
Welcome Guest or Unit Takeover? PDF- Tenant self assessment tool to help them identify if they may be experiencing a HUT.
In the News
Egan: The creeping, hidden menace of home takeovers (Oct, 2020)
$250K to help Peterborough, Lindsay police fight gang crime, human trafficking in community housing (Aug, 2020)
TCHC adds 51 new Special Constables to strengthen community policing and tenant safety (Nov, 2019)
Party's over for TCH home invaders, staff say (Dec, 2018)
Seven people arrested after suspected apartment takeover (Jan, 2015)
Ottawa Police do home takeover blitz (March, 2014)