HUTs Hub for Tenants
If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 911.
Visit The Dream Team Resources page for a list of mental health and housing supports and services.
External Links
Crime Prevention Ottawa Home Takeovers
Community Safety Units - Safety officers for Toronto Community Housing.
Find your Neighbourhood Community Officer - Toronto Police Services
Resources to Print
Boundaries and House Rules Activity PDF- Activity for tenants to identify boundaries in your life and help you set rules for their home.
Blank House Rules PDF- To write down some rules that your guests must abide by.
Welcome Guest or Unit Takeover? PDF- Self assessment tool to help you identify if you may be experiencing a HUT.
HUTs Video Series Playlist
Research and Studies
In the News
Egan: The creeping, hidden menace of home takeovers (Oct, 2020)
$250K to help Peterborough, Lindsay police fight gang crime, human trafficking in community housing (Aug, 2020)
TCHC adds 51 new Special Constables to strengthen community policing and tenant safety (Nov, 2019)
Party's over for TCH home invaders, staff say (Dec, 2018)
Seven people arrested after suspected apartment takeover (Jan, 2015)
Ottawa Police do home takeover blitz (March, 2014)