Grey Owl Non-Profit Housing Inc.

Grey Owl Non-Profit Housing and Armstrong Place, named in honor of the late Doris Armstrong, original program director, offers housing to members of the community facing mental health issues as they navigate their recovery. With an art space on the lower floor and easy access to the mental-health programming through Grey Owl Post-Psychiatric Co-op right next door, the social housing at Armstrong Place provides a much needed safe and affordable place for our members to call home.

As it continues to be to this day, steady, safe, and affordable housing was a struggle for members of the post-psychiatric community in the early 90s, and with only 6 suites in Brandon Community Welcome at the time, director Doris Armstrong knew that something needed to be done in order to better serve the community.

Facing zoning issues with the City and a lingering neighborhood stigma against those struggling with mental illness, Mrs. Armstrong campaigned to build more housing in the form of a three-storey apartment building on the south side of the property already owned by Brandon Community Welcome. Eventually, thanks to some financing through Manitoba Housing, construction was completed, the doors opened, and 9 one-bedroom suites filled in early 1996. Thus, Grey Owl Non-Profit Housing was born.

Nearly 30 years later, the social housing provided through Armstrong Place continues to be a pillar in the work that Brandon Community Welcome, Grey Owl Post-Psychiatric, and Grey Owl Non-Profit Housing do in the mental health community.