VISION
CREATING COMMUNITIES
YOU’RE PROUD TO CALL HOME
Our 5-year Strategic Plan (2025–2030) outlines the pillars that guide everything we do from strengthening tenant experience to building a more sustainable, inclusive future.
​This is how Nepean Housing is turning our mission, vision, and values into action.
OUR CORE VALUES
Client Driven / Purpose
We are client driven with a focus on identifying his/her needs, preferences and strengths and, practicing a shared decision-making model to ensure services are most effective and helpful for them.
Integrity
Our integrity means that we are self-aware, accountable, responsible, and truthful and our actions are internally consistent. We practice open, honest, transparent, and professional behaviour in all interactions.
Respect
Respect guides all of our daily interactions—with each other, our residents, funders and stakeholders—where all employees are listened to and valued through ethical practices, fairness, consistency, and compassion in all exchanges.
Collaboration
We build and practice collaborative relationships with each other, our partner agencies, and other housing providers because we believe in the power of teamwork. Working together allows us to deliver exceptional services.
Loyalty
We are dedicated to the mission, to our communities and to each other and, will support and invest in opportunities for individual professional development and continuous improvement to ensure we retain our people.
Diversity and Inclusion
We are inclusive, and we believe that when we are more representative of the communities we serve, this diversity drives success and innovation.
MISSION
Nepean Housing Corporation is a non-profit housing provider. We develop and maintain mixed-income, inclusive, community-based affordable housing. We promote strong communities through leadership and sustainable community development.
STRATEGIC PILLARS
These four pillars anchor Nepean Housing Corporation’s 2025–2030 Strategic Plan, guiding our actions as we grow, serve, and lead with purpose.
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Tenant Experience
We are committed to improving communication, supporting successful tenancies, and enhancing community engagement to create safe, inclusive, and responsive housing communities.
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Strategic Growth
We focus on revitalizing and modernizing our housing portfolio through sustainable development, innovation, and long-term planning that meets the needs of current and future residents.
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Our People
We invest in our staff and organizational culture through professional development, internal communication, and team-building to build a strong, inclusive, and empowered workforce.
Organizational Excellence
We strive for operational efficiency, financial sustainability, and continuous improvement across all departments to ensure our systems and services are responsive, accountable, and resilient.
Building the Future: 40 Years of Housing, Community, and Impact
This mini-documentary captures how Nepean Housing Corporation has quietly advanced housing as essential infrastructure for four decades. Featuring the voices of board members, staff, and sector leaders, it traces our evolution from grassroots beginnings to a resilient, mission-driven organization shaping local impact through strategic leadership.
Nepean Housing Corporation (NHC), incorporated in 1984, is a non-profit organization that provides and maintains affordable rental housing for individuals and families with low to modest incomes. All NHC communities are located within the diverse neighbourhoods of Nepean, offering both market rent and rent-geared-to-income (RGI) options.
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Over the past 40 years, NHC has grown to include more than 586 rental units, managed with the support of a 19-member full-time staff team and a dedicated volunteer board of 10. Our communities are built on a foundation of inclusion, respect, and long-term sustainability ensuring tenants not only have a place to live, but a place to thrive.
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Our work is guided by core values of leadership, community development, and organizational excellence, and we actively collaborate with partners across the housing sector. These include the Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association (ONPHA), Housing Services Corporation (HSC), Canadian Housing and Renewal Association (CHRA), and the City of Ottawa’s Housing Services Branch, among others.​