About Places For People

PURPOSE

We exist to transform lives by creating homes and supporting tenants.

MISSION STATEMENT

Places for People creates and manages quality affordable rental housing in Haliburton County, fostering an environment in which our tenants can thrive.

VALUES AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES

  • We are good landlords who maintain our properties in excellent condition; we treat our tenants with respect and expect respect in return.

  • We are caring and courageous citizens who share with our tenants a mutual desire to use secure housing as a condition for transforming lives, the outcome of which is social integration (the reality and feeling of belonging).

  • We develop and project a working culture based on pragmatic optimism, mutual respect, compassionate fairness, honesty and integrity.

  • We believe that people want to take charge of their lives, and therefore we strive to create opportunities that nurture and empower that intent for the greater good.

  • We are committed to using our intelligence, energy, ingenuity, experience and social capital to create housing, and transform the role of housing in our community and our society so that all people have the reality and feeling of belonging.

  • We commit to responsible stewardship of the environment, prioritizing it equally with responsible financial and social stewardship.

MANIFESTO

Places for People is built on the conviction that society thrives when everyone has a place where they belong.

Belonging is a three-strand cord: one strand is knowing one has the right to be where one is, the second is feeling that that reality is acknowledged and accepted, and the third is acknowledgement that others have an equal and reciprocal right.

Belonging in one’s community and society is the foundation for becoming a person who contributes to the greater good. Housing is a necessary condition for that to happen, but it may not, in itself, be sufficient. Places for People believes that creating the conditions under which each tenant feels they belong is what transforms housing into a home.

Creating the reality and feeling of belonging is also what engages the community in joining hearts and hands in making this happen again and again and again. Places for People believes in the authenticity of community – acknowledging that our well-being is intertwined – as a driver in making the world a better place.