Community LAMDA

Community LAMDA is a registered charity that provides staff-supported, affordable, apartment-style homes as a foundation for stability and wellness for adults living in Calgary who experience mental illness, particularly schizophrenia.
Community LAMDA is a small organization that has been providing permanent homes to people with severe mental illness since 1987. The LAMDA Board of Directors is an operational board overseeing the day-to-day operations of two apartment buildings owned by Calgary Housing Company. The Mission site has 30 single-occupancy apartments, and the Killarney site has 16 two-bedroom apartments, so that LAMDA serves a total of 62 people. Our two full-time support workers help sustain community supports for the tenants, to make sure their housing is well organized and safe, and to ensure that the tenants’ independence is safeguarded and enhanced.
One of the reasons for LAMDA’s exceptional success (as evidenced by low hospital readmission rates and stable tenancy) is that we provide safe and permanent homes, not a temporary residential treatment facility. We believe that a home should be permanent, secure, affordable, and correspond to people’s choice of a place they want to call home.