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          • Presentation Slides - Large - "I think it's Bullshit" (HR&HF May 21, 2026)
      • A Rights-Based Approach : The Federal Housing Advocate (Report and Webinar)
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          • Human Rights-Based Responses to Encampments Following the 100 Victoria Court Ruling - Human Rights & Housing Fights
      • Seeing Beyond the Stigma: Reframing the Narrative >
        • Muted Voices & Performative Gestures: No Pride Delivered
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    • Realizing the Right: Municipal Policy Responses to Encampments >
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        • Rethinking Municipal Approaches - Human Rights and Housing Fights
        • Human Rights and Housing Fights: Municipal Encampment Responses
        • CAEH Conference Ottawa 2024
      • Written Content - Projecct Outputs - Realizing the Right >
        • Waterloo Region Snapshot - Realizing the Right: Municipal Policy Responses to Encampments
        • Rethinking Municipal Policy Responses to Encampments: Building a Human Rights Approach in Ontario
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      • When Politics Fail: Chasing Evictions Instead of Solutions
      • Dear RoW: Your Bylaw Is Faulty (& Your Politics Kinda Suck)
      • CAEH 2025 & More Cambridge Encampment Evictions
      • On the right to adequate housing - By Peter Elgin (2020)
      • Cambridge Evictions - Heatwave 2025
      • Open Letter: ​Seeking aid for Unsheltered in face of current Extreme Weather Crisis - 2025
      • Unsheltered: Emergency or Public Health Crisis - Where are we? >
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​Dear city of cambridge (CC: Region of waterloo)
​Cutting Through the (Seemingly Bovine) 'Fecal Matter'.

Understanding the Growing Divide:
Another Look at Local Data

2026 Edition

On this Page: 

  • No Place Else to Go: Surveying the human rights experiences of encampment residents in Ontario
    • Part 1/7: Building the Evidence: Survey Design, Data Collection, and Research Highlights
  • Human Right & Housing Fights:
    • Barriers to Belonging: Examining Service Access
      • Presentation to the ​​Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) on August 4, 2026

TO be added: 

  • Stuff re: ​PIT Counts, Capacities, and Service Gaps​
  • ​June 16, 2026 Region of Waterloo Special Council Meeting
  • A Better Tent City & June 24, 2026 Region of Waterloo Council Meeting






Coming soon from 'Realizing the right': 

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No PLace Else to go:
Surveying the Human Rights experiences
​of Encampment Residents in ontario 

'No Place Else to Go: Surveying the Human Rights Experiences of Encampment Residents in Ontario' is a seven-part report series. 
Rather than releasing our survey findings as a single publication, as we did with our policy report, we are sharing this research incrementally through a series of interconnected reports. Alongside an overview of the research process and findings, the series includes individual reports dedicated to each of the human rights pillars explored through the survey. We hope this approach allows for each theme to be examined in greater depth while fostering broader community dialogue.
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The reports in this series are each authored by different members of the project team. While each report can be read independently, together they provide a comprehensive account of the project's methodology, evidence, and findings concerning human rights and encampments in Ontario.

Contributing Authors: ​

  • Shabeeh Ahmad
  • Mauleek Bhatt
  • Regan Sunshine Brussé
  • Erin Dej​
  • Jammy Lo
  • Sidney Macdonald
  • Laura Pin
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'Building the Evidence: Survey Design, Data Collection, and Research Highlights' is the first in our series of reports. It outlines how we designed the survey and collected the data, and offers a brief overview of our research findings, which are then discussed in more detail in subsequent reports. 

Human Rights & Housing Fights:

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​Barriers to Belonging:
​Examining Service Access

The Realizing the Right research project combines a policy scan of municipal neo-vagrancy bylaws and encampment protocols with a survey of 105 people who have lived in an encampment within the previous year.

This presentation brings together both pieces of our research, with presenters looking at the municipal policy report findings and the lived experience survey findings in deeper examination of "Pillar 3: Equitable and Accessible Social Services". 


  • The Regional Municipality of Waterloo v. Persons Unknown and to be Ascertained – 2025 Litigation (WRCLS)
  • January 7, 2026 Region of Waterloo Special Council Meeting RE: Proposed amendment to By-law 25-021
    • ​​​Lesley Crompton - January 7, 2026 RoW Council Presentation
  • ​2024 PIT Data (and 2025 upon availability)
    • ​​Point In Time (PIT) Counts​
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Build zone - theoretically Intended Topic/point coverage
(some currently unexpanded trains of thought I may or may not get to)

  • Which region pages are available offering points of clarity around local demand or capacity related figures?
    • which meetings, minutes or staff reports? (most recent?) 

​Housing Continuum : 
  • service definitions & housing types re: Housing stability system?


Other "Nickels" in this "jar":

  • ​Sheltering with Dignity: ​Safe Tenting as a Human Right
  • Seeing Beyond the Stigma: Reframing the Narrative
  • ​​​“I Think It’s Bullshit”: Encampment Evictions and the Criminalization of Homelessness - Human Rights & Housing Fights
  • ​​Understanding the Growing Divide : A Look at Local Data
  • ​​A Rights-Based Approach : The Federal Housing Advocate (Report and Webinar)

Dear city of cambridge (CC: Region of waterloo)

Cutting Through the (Seemingly Bovine) 'Fecal Matter'

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​​More pages from "around here":

Because there Must always be music...


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