About Us
The Heart Behind Asher's Place
Who we are, our why, our mission, our vision, and the objectives guiding our first 20 units.
Who We Are & Our Why
The Heart Behind Asher's Place
Founded as a proactive response to Ontario's visible housing crisis, Asher's Place Community Homes is an incorporated provincial non-profit organization. Our Why is simple: many people experiencing homelessness—whether stuck in emergency shelter systems or coming out of mental health rehabilitation—possess the daily living skills needed to thrive independently, yet they experience recurring housing failures simply due to a lack of structured daytime stabilization, baseline accountability, and targeted care.
Our Mission: To bridge the critical gap between homelessness—including emergency shelter dependency—and permanent independence by providing stable, affordable housing coupled with targeted, daytime mobile case management.
Our Vision: A future where temporary vulnerability does not lead to permanent homelessness, and where community-based, public-private partnerships create sustainable paths to lifelong housing stability.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
At Asher’s Place Community Homes, DEI is not a policy checkbox—it is the operational foundation of our housing model. True housing stability cannot exist without cultural safety and absolute equity. We recognize that systemic barriers disproportionately push marginalized communities into housing insecurity.
We actively dismantle these barriers through three core commitments:
- Equitable Care Delivery: Our 24-Hour Daytime Mobile Support model is explicitly tailored to respect individual cultural backgrounds, gender identities, and lived experiences. We deliver trauma-informed care that honors the unique identity of every resident.
- Inclusive Field Frameworks: We strictly cultivate a workforce and volunteer network that reflects the rich diversity of the Halton, Peel, Toronto, and Durham regions we serve.
- Accessible Systems: We continually optimize our physical setups, documentation, and communication pathways to ensure our housing environments are welcoming and accessible to individuals of all abilities and backgrounds.
Immediate Rehousing
Move 20 low-to-moderate acuity individuals into dignified, scattered-site, or clustered apartment units this year.
Fiduciary & Risk Integrity
Maintain strict, dual-signatory financial controls and PHIPA-compliant data networks to protect our participants, lenders, and community partners.
Systemic Alleviation
Actively collaborate with regional municipal governments to systematically reduce the strain on local emergency shelter infrastructures.
Community Partnership
Build lasting public-private partnerships with landlords, lenders, and neighbors that create sustainable paths to lifelong housing stability.