If you are experiencing homelessness in London, there are local organizations and programs that can help with shelter, housing, health supports, outreach, and basic needs. The resources below connect people to services that can help them find safety, stability, and support.
Resources for people experiencing homelessness in London
Emergency shelters
Mission Services of London – Men’s Mission: Provides emergency shelter and support for men aged 16 and older who are experiencing homelessness. Services include meals, shelter, housing support, and connections to health and social services.
Rotholme Family Shelter: Provides temporary shelter and stabilization support for families experiencing or at risk of homelessness. Staff help families access housing, financial supports, and community services.
Unity Project for Relief of Homelessness: Offers emergency shelter, supportive housing, and housing stability programs for adults experiencing homelessness. Programs focus on helping people transition from homelessness to stable housing with ongoing supports.
Salvation Army Centre of Hope: Provides emergency shelter, meals, and housing support services for individuals experiencing homelessness in London. Staff help connect people with housing options, health supports, and community services.
Zhaawanog Shelter: Emergency shelter and supports for Indigenous women and their children who are experiencing violence, abuse, or homelessness.
Anova: A London-based organization that provides shelter, counselling, crisis support, and advocacy for individuals affected by gender-based violence. Services include emergency shelter for women and children, sexual violence counselling, outreach, and second stage housing supports.
Outreach supports
London Cares: An organization that provides street outreach, supportive housing, and housing stability services to help individuals experiencing chronic and persistent homelessness. Outreach workers operate 24 hours a day.
519Pursuit: A volunteer-led street outreach program that supports people experiencing poverty or homelessness. Volunteers distribute meals, care packages, and outdoor gear, and help connect people with community services and supports.
Housing and stability supports
Coordinated Access to Housing Supports (City of London): London’s homelessness system helps connect people to the right housing and support programs based on their needs. Through Coordinated Access, individuals can be matched to housing opportunities, case management, and support services that help them move toward stable housing.
Housing Stability Bank: A financial assistance program led by the Salvation Army Centre of Hope that helps low-income Londoners secure or maintain housing. The program may help with rental arrears, last month’s rent, or emergency utility costs, and also connects people with additional supports.
Health, mental health and addiction supports
London InterCommunity Health Centre: Provides primary care, mental health services, outreach programs, and social supports for people experiencing barriers to accessing healthcare, including those who are homeless or precariously housed.
Canadian Mental Health Association Thames Valley Addiction and Mental Health Services: Provides housing supports, mental health care, addiction services, and case management for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
HART Hub (Homelessness & Addiction Recovery Treatment Hub): A low barrier, treatment-oriented program that supports people experiencing homelessness who are also facing mental health or addiction challenges and are seeking recovery focused supports.
Ontario Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Strategy (OAHAS): Supports Indigenous people living with or affected by HIV and AIDS. Services include advocacy, HIV and AIDS education and training for Indigenous organizations, health promotion, outreach services, and referrals to health and social supports.
Regional HIV/AIDS Connection: A community organization serving London and surrounding counties that provides programs related to HIV, hepatitis C, sexual health, and harm reduction. Services include testing, prevention education, supportive programs, and transitional housing options such as the John Gordon Home for people living with HIV or HCV.
Drop-in centres and community spaces
Ark Aid Street Mission: Provides meals, outreach, and practical supports such as clothing and hygiene supplies for people experiencing poverty or homelessness.
My Sisters’ Place: Drop-in centre for women experiencing homelessness, poverty, trauma, or gender-based violence. Offers wrap around supports.
Atlohsa Family Healing Services: An Indigenous-led organization that provides low-barrier wraparound services to community members with complex needs across Southwestern Ontario, including mental wellness, substance use, homelessness, domestic violence, and trauma. Atlohsa specializes in providing strengths-based healing and wellness supports, using trauma-informed and harm reduction approaches.
London Coffee House: A community-based drop in program that offers a welcoming space for individuals experiencing mental health challenges, social isolation, or housing instability. Visitors can access light meals, social connection, peer support, and information about community programs and services.
Youth Opportunities Unlimited (YOU): Provides emergency shelter, transitional housing, employment programs, and wraparound supports for youth experiencing homelessness or housing instability in London.
Neighbourhood and community support centres
Crouch Neighbourhood Resource Centre: A neighbourhood-based community hub that supports individuals and families facing poverty, housing instability, and social isolation. Programs include food access, community meals, outreach, and referrals to housing, health, and social services.
Northwest London Resource Centre: A neighbourhood-based community hub that offers programs and supports for individuals and families experiencing financial hardship or housing instability. Services include food programs, community meals, outreach, referrals to housing and social supports, and programs that help people build stability and connections in the community.
South London Neighbourhood Resource Centre: A neighbourhood-based community hub that supports individuals and families facing poverty, housing instability, and social isolation. Programs include food access, community meals, outreach, referrals to housing and income supports, and programs that help people connect with services and build stability.
Glen Cairn Neighbourhood Resource Centre: A neighbourhood-based community hub that offers programs and services to support individuals and families experiencing financial hardship. Supports include food programs, community meals, outreach, and connections to housing, health, and social services.
Crisis lines and information services
Kids Help Phone: A free, confidential 24-hour national support service for young people in Canada. Youth can connect with professional counsellors by phone or access volunteer-led support through text and online chat. Kids Help Phone provides emotional support, counselling, information, and referrals related to mental health, relationships, bullying, substance use, housing instability, and other challenges affecting young people.
Reach Out: A free, confidential 24-hour information, support, and crisis service for people experiencing mental health or addiction challenges in London and surrounding communities. Reach Out connects individuals to trained responders who can provide immediate support, information about local services, and referrals to community programs such as crisis care, mental health supports, addiction services, and housing related resources.
Southwest Healthline: A directory of health and social services in London and Middlesex County. It includes listings for shelters, outreach programs, food supports, mental health services, and housing help.