Sutcliffe has a dedicated Ending Homelessness Action Plan that moves beyond general housing supply. It calls for prevention and diversion, rapid housing pathways and a substantial expansion of supportive housing. He proposes doubling supportive-housing delivery to roughly 110 units per year and housing the approximately 450 people on the supportive-housing waitlist within five years.

His plan also maintains the goal of ending youth homelessness by 2030, expands coordinated 24/7 outreach for unsheltered residents and ties supportive housing to mental-health, addiction, primary-care, peer and life-skills supports. He has also supported expanding ANCHOR and has expressed support for a provincial review of involuntary treatment in limited high-risk cases.

Leiper has not released a standalone homelessness blueprint with quantified supportive-housing, shelter, encampment or outreach targets, but his public statements and platform outline several priorities.

He links homelessness prevention to permanently affordable non-profit housing and a municipal acquisition fund to protect existing rental buildings from speculative loss and renovictions. In the Yahoo homelessness comparison he also stresses tougher, proactive enforcement of property-standards bylaws as a tool to keep vulnerable tenants housed rather than pushed into homelessness.

On street-level response, his broader safety platform supports making the ANCHOR civilian crisis-response program permanent, expanding it city-wide, and shifting appropriate non-core police calls, including mental-health crises, to alternative response models. He also calls for better access to treatment and support services for people experiencing addiction, mental illness and poverty, framed around dignity rather than criminalization.

Overall, his approach focuses more on prevention, tenant protection and non-profit housing than on a quantified, time-bound homelessness-reduction plan.

Lawson’s May housing plan contains distinct homelessness commitments that belong in a separate category: a public 90-day review of shelter operations involving police, paramedics and shelter providers, and expansion of homelessness-diversion programs and frontline partnerships. He argues that unsafe shelter conditions and public disorder require stronger management and accountability.

In August, Lawson told iPolitics that harm reduction should lead toward recovery and said his focus would be on getting people connected to help and off the streets. He said a broader policy would follow. Because detailed supportive-housing, treatment-capacity and encampment targets remain unpublished, this position is substantive but still incomplete.

Neil Saravanamuttoo presents homelessness as requiring both immediate street-level action and longer-term housing solutions. He supports building transitional tiny homes and other temporary or transitional shelter options, paired with rapid-access detox and recovery services, expanded non-police crisis response, and rapid-response cleanup teams for needles and other debris.

Over the medium and long term, he argues the city must increase affordable and social housing with wrap-around services, including both transitional and permanent supportive options. He backs expanding ANCHOR across Ottawa and emphasizes that non-police crisis response should be scaled up to handle more mental health and addiction-related calls. He has also said the city should remain open to reviewing compassionate-care and intervention rules to better support people with severe addiction or mental illness.

His campaign still has not released detailed supportive-housing production targets or a fully costed homelessness strategy, but the combination of tiny homes, rapid detox access, expanded crisis response and commitments to both transitional and long-term social housing outlines a more integrated approach than previously documented.