MY MOTHER NAMED ME SUNSHINE

Personal advocacy and information sharing website of Regan Sunshine Brusse,
Active Member & Anti-Poverty Advocate with the Alliance Against Poverty

Sunshine?

Current Site focus: Affordable Housing, Homelessness, and Unsheltered Lives

Where our Federal and Provincial aids hold gaps, we must persist. Where our local government needs time to change, we must loudly be patient. Loudly, so they feel our support for change. Loudly so they may know our desires and evolve towards them.

Because we do evolve, and in this moment, I'm thinking, we are.

Our world and lives are all in their own variants of chaos. So let's come together on the smaller levels to assure each others care. With innovation, transparency & willingness there is a beautiful way through this all.

More about the Social Justice Housing Rally

As we start having some of the difficult conversations surrounding unsheltered lives

These aren't easy discussions to have. With so many social issues better being identified, more strongly vocalized, and arising in todays world simultaniously, people are strained. We are all feeling it.

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Find out who is running in our local Municipal Elections October 24, 2022:

You can as well find full lists of all municipal candidates HERE

Advocacy - Information Resources

Local Resources - Waterloo Region

Who is The Alliance Against Poverty?

Information PAges:

Some Pieces of these puzzles - Updates, Media Coverage and Information links

(Updated as able... Always so much more to post!)

"It's more trauma" - The Record
Victoria campers could be evicted any day now - The Record
Region says high safety risk at Kitchener encampment, residents will have to move - CTV
Homeless man leaves encampment at Weber and Victoria, pitches tent near Kitchener Public Library - Waterloo Chronicle
"Elevated safety risk": Victoria encampment residents may have to go sooner than expected - City News
Local man being "renovicted" worries if he's next to be homeless - Cambridge Today
Mother's Day fire adds still more stress for residents being evicted from Cambridge camp - The Record

Hold the Line
- Hold the Line Response to the Regional Official Plans draft policies

Dufferin Lived Experience Collective

On the Agenda May 10th, 2022 Regional Community Services Meeting, 9AM:
- CSD-HOU-22-10, Emergency Shelter Planning Update
- CSD-HOU-22-11, Waterloo Region Housing Master Plan Update and Amendments

Addressing and Supporting the Student Housing Experience - Conestoga Students Report

Opinion: A surprise behind every door - The Record

Temporary shelters in Kitchener to remain open til end of June - Global News

Region of Waterloo:
Temporary Shelters Extended to End of June

There is definitely no eviction happening this fall. Not gonna happen! ✊□□✊□ @RegionWaterloo
— Bangishimo (@bangishimo_) April 28, 2022

Do More Good Dialogues - KWCF
The Right to Housing in Action - The National Right to Housing Network
Neo-Vagrancy Bylaws Across Canada
Alliance Statement on Occupation - Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa
University of Waterloo: COVID-19 and the housing implications in the Region of Waterloo: amplified challenges and proactive planning
Does a Housing-first approach to homelessness work? Here are 2 views - CBC
Stories and Narratives Report on the 2021 Point In Time Count
Dimensions of Poverty Hub - Statistics Canada

Vital Signs - KWCF

Housing Innovation Roundtable -Update Report 2020 - KWCF

Room for everyone: Human rights and rental house licensing - Ontario Human Rights Commission

Building Better Futures - Region of Waterloo
- Housing Dashboard
- Affordable Housing for All - Building a better future for all (PDF)
Affordable Housing Strategy: Discussion Paper and Recommendations (Page 24) - City of Waterloo

Alliance Against Poverty: Opinion: The Record's stories on homelessness show urgency of the problem

Homeless forced to choose between best friend and shelter - Cambridge Today
Waterloo Region delivers eviction notice to homeless encampment in Kitchener- Global News
Rally in support of Victoria and Weber encampment set for next week - City News
"This space feels comfortable for them", outreach worker says - The Record

I've written two stories today about pending evictions of unhoused people. Rather than asking you send puppies, instead maybe donate or find another way to support some of the wonderful organizations doing harm reduction work, like @AIDSCKW @SanguenOutreach @CambFoodBank
— Paige Desmond (@DesmondRecord) May 29, 2022

November 3, 2021 - Region of Waterloo completes engagement process to identify and support those experiencing homelessness

(Images below sourced from Region of Waterloo)

Images above sourced from Region of Waterloo: https://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/living-here/resources/Documents/Housing/Region_Of_Waterloo_Point_in_Time_Count_Infographic_2021.PDF

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