In the past five months, three Ontario cities have declared food insecurity emergencies. Food banks across the province have significant data and insight as community engaged organizations, and suggest that housing is a central component of addressing food insecurity. The link between housing precarity and food insecurity is particularly felt in Ottawa, which in 2020 was the first city in Canada to declare a housing emergency. The situation has only exacerbated since then, with loss of affordable housing and increasing hunger. Although many community groups and scholars accept the well-researched connection of housing and food— such as Spring and Rosol’s housing-food insecurity nexus— the two are siloed in planning and practice. My study challenges this lack of integration between housing and food in conventional urban planning. This project locates and examines alternative socio-spatial approaches to providing housing and food in Ottawa, where the two exist in the same location and are thus accessed together. Examples of this could include community housing with affiliated community gardens, apartments with food co-ops on-site, and social housing built around community food centers. Using semi-structured interviews with leaders at Ottawa housing agencies and organizers at alternative developments, this work will (i) analyze the regulatory and financial barriers to integrated housing-food developments, (ii) identify the benefits they provide users in accessing food, and (iii) create guiding recommendations for housing developers and community organizations to implement that support diverse community economies within housing spaces. These strategies can reconceptualize food access as community connection in ways that emphasize increased equity and social justice.