Plan priority 06

Safe Public Spaces. Regional Solutions.

Cobourg currently hosts Northumberland County's only emergency shelter and carried the County's 2025/2026 winter warming-room response. Port Hope is not facing the same concentration today, but it is not immune. The right response is to prepare early, protect local public spaces and support a regional solution.

Prepare early. Act regionally.

Port Hope is not facing the same concentration of visible homelessness, addictions-related crises and public-space pressure that Cobourg is managing. That gives us time to prepare, not permission to look away. Jordan will protect safe, welcoming public spaces in Port Hope and push for a regional response that supports neighbouring municipalities instead of leaving one community to carry the burden.

The short version

At a glance

Three first actions

Set clear standards for safe, usable public spaces and assign responsibility for recurring local problems.
Use the mayor's County Council seat to push for a regional homelessness and addictions response that supports Cobourg and prevents displacement between municipalities.
Publish the full implementation plan later in the campaign, including municipal actions, partner responsibilities, funding, first-year milestones and public measures.

What it costs

The detailed plan will identify what Port Hope should fund, what belongs to Northumberland County, the Province and healthcare partners, and the funding source for each new municipal commitment.

How you can check

The detailed plan is published with named actions, owners, funding and milestones.
Local public-space response and resolution performance is reported.
Recurring cases and locations have a named owner and next step.
Regional commitments and unresolved capacity gaps are public.
Treatment, housing and follow-up outcomes are reported where reliable partner data exists.

Jordan’s commitment

Port Hope can protect its public spaces without abandoning neighbouring municipalities.

What I'll do

Concrete commitments

Publish a standalone detailed implementation plan later in the campaign
Keep Port Hope Police local, accountable and properly resourced while respecting operational independence and civilian governance
Protect parks, streets and public facilities as safe, usable and accessible shared spaces
Use the mayor's Northumberland County Council seat to push for a coordinated regional response rather than leaving Cobourg to carry the burden alone
Support practical cooperation among Port Hope, Cobourg, the County, police, healthcare, treatment, housing and community partners
Publish who owns recurring local problems, the next action, the escalation route and any unresolved capacity gap

What I support

Safe, usable and accessible public spaces
Early preparation before recurring pressures become entrenched
A regional response involving Port Hope, Cobourg, Northumberland County, healthcare, treatment, housing and community partners
A locally accountable Port Hope Police Service as one part of the response

Standards I'll apply

Focus municipal standards and enforcement on unsafe conduct and public-space impacts, not housing status or addiction
Reject displacement between municipalities as a substitute for treatment, housing and follow-up
Assign a responsible owner, next action and escalation route to recurring problems
Match every new municipal commitment with an identified cost, funding source and public measure

Details and trade-offsHow the position works

Why this is regional

Cobourg currently hosts Northumberland County's only emergency shelter and carried the County's 2025/2026 winter warming-room response. County and Town records have documented significant pressure on local services and public spaces.

Homelessness, addictions, mental health, housing and public safety do not stop at municipal boundaries. Port Hope should support neighbouring municipalities rather than wait for the same pressures to become entrenched here.

Use the mayor's County Council seat to push shared responsibility and visible follow-through
Support practical municipal cooperation without pretending every municipality needs an identical facility
Reject simply moving people or visible problems from one town to another
Press the Province for the treatment, mental-health, supportive-housing and healthcare capacity municipalities cannot create alone

What is already decided

The detailed plan is still to come, but the campaign's direction is not undecided.

Keep Port Hope's public spaces safe, usable and accessible
Prepare before recurring pressures become entrenched
Keep Port Hope Police local, accountable and properly resourced
Focus municipal standards and enforcement on unsafe conduct rather than status
Support a regional response that includes treatment, housing and follow-up
Publish responsibility, next actions and unresolved capacity gaps

What the forthcoming plan must answer

The later campaign release must be concrete enough for residents to judge before voting.

The actions Port Hope can take directly
The regional mechanism Jordan will pursue through County Council
The responsibilities of the County, Province, healthcare system and service partners
The pathway from crisis response to treatment, housing and follow-up
The public-space standards and escalation process
Costs, funding responsibilities and defensible funding assumptions
First-year actions and implementation milestones
Public measures residents can use to judge whether the plan is working

In practice

The full implementation plan is coming later in the campaign

This page sets the direction and fixed commitments. It does not pretend the unreleased mechanics are complete.

The standalone release will identify municipal actions, the regional mechanism, partner responsibilities, the pathway from crisis to treatment and housing, public-space standards, costs, funding, first-year milestones and public measures. It will enter the public platform and change history through the normal reviewed process.

What an honest decision must include

Regional responsibility does not require identical facilities in every municipality; it requires fair contribution and shared accountability
Enforcement without treatment, housing and follow-up can relocate problems instead of resolving them
New local services need identified authority, funding and operating responsibility

ResponsibilityWho is responsible

Responsibility sets the route to action. Jordan will keep the file moving until residents have a clear answer.

Port Hope controls

Municipal parks, streets, facilities, maintenance, lighting, property standards and many public-space rules
Municipal appointments and responsibilities under the police-governance framework without interference in police operations
Convening partners and publicly reporting unresolved local impacts

Cooperation required

Northumberland County housing, shelter and social services
The Province, healthcare, public health, hospitals, treatment and community providers
Cobourg, other Northumberland municipalities, police and community partners

Measure progressHow you can check the result

Publication of the detailed plan with named actions, owners, funding and milestones
Public-space response and resolution performance
Repeat locations and unresolved ownership gaps
Regional commitments and unresolved capacity gaps
Treatment, housing and follow-up outcomes where reliable partner data exists

Official sourcesRead the public record

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