Safe, supportive and sustainable housing
Restorative Justice Housing Ontario (RJHO) provides safe, secure housing to individuals in transition after their recent release from prison. Our plan is to break the cycle of homelessness and incarceration, one person at a time.
Once our residents move into an RJHO home, community integration commences. With a stable foundation, residents can more successfully rebuild their lives, do their own healing work, and seek employment or volunteer positions.
Our mission
The cycle of homelessness and incarceration must be broken. By working to create safe, supportive home environments for people leaving prison, RJHO works to reduce the number of people who return to prison. To do this, we're working hard to find more houses and increase the support we provide to our residents.
How you can help
Do you know of an available house we can rent? Our ideal option includes three to four bedrooms and two to three bathrooms. Please send any leads to Joseph Lauren.
We welcome donations, as we do not receive any official government support. Learn more about how to donate.
Interested in volunteering? Join our community of volunteers today.
Apply for RJHO housing
Are you looking for a safe, supportive place to stay for yourself or someone else?
Fill out our application form. We'll be in touch as soon as we can to see if an RJHO house is the right fit for you.
Read our latest news and stories
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Read the November 2024 Newsletter
Read the November 2024 RJHO newsletter – full of updates and great stories.
What is restorative justice?
Put simply, restorative justice is an approach to justice that focuses on repairing the harm that results from criminal actions. It holds offenders accountable for their actions and affirms that repairing the harm they have caused should be a collaborative process. Restorative justice also encourages offenders, victims and communities to work together to find solutions and take steps toward positive change.
But how can offenders engage in restorative justice if they don't have a stable place in the community to begin with? How can they repair any harm they've caused if all their focus is on affording, or even finding, a safe place to sleep?
This is why we created RJHO: to help ex-offenders find safe, supportive, and sustainable housing so they can start making up for harm caused in the past and work toward positive relationships with their communities in the future.
Land acknowledgement
RJHO acknowledges that our homes are situated on lands of the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. RJHO also acknowledges that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit and the Williams Treaties signed with multiple Mississaugas and Chippewa bands.
Get involved
Let's have a conversation about how you or your group can help find safe, supportive and sustainable housing for an ex-prisoner in need.