HomeComing Community Choice Coalition promotes the rights of people with mental illness to live where they choose.

Our coalition was formed in 2003 because we saw that “Not-In-My-Back Yard” discrimination was violating the rights of people with mental illness. Supportive housing providers, mental health consumers and survivors, city planners, human rights lawyers, mental health agencies and other citizens joined together to:

• Ensure city planning practices do not become a platform for discrimination, prejudices and fears
• Identify potential human rights abuses and take legal action against them
• Help supportive housing providers create new housing, without compromising the dignity of the people they house
• Mobilize citizens to support new housing for people with mental illness.

HomeComing started in Toronto, where we mobilize citizens and support new housing developments directly. But we also provide information and advice throughout Ontario and across Canada.

HomeComing’s focus is people with mental illness, where the discrimination is most acute. However, our goal is to ensure no-one is stopped from living where they want because of “Not-In-My-Back-Yard” discrimination.