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

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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: 
  • Region of Waterloo
  • City of Kitchener
  • City of Cambridge
  • City of Waterloo

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?

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Information PAges:

  • ​​The Criminalization of Homelessness
  • Housing: A Human Right
  • 2022: The State of Our Municipalities
  • Regional Council meeting April 27, 2022
    • re: 12.2 - CSD-HOU-22-13, Supporting those Experiencing Unsheltered Homelessness ​
  • Substance Use and Homelessness
  • ​March 9, 2022 Waterloo Police Services Board Meeting​
  • Housing Affordablility Task Force 
  • Living Rough: Encampments
  • ​Living Rough: Washrooms
  • The Housing First Approach
  • More pages "around here"... 

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

(Updated as able... Always so much more to post!) 
Mother's Day fire adds still more stress for residents being evicted from Cambridge camp - The Record

Housing Service Fair for K/W!
84 Frederick street, DT Kitchener! May 18th, 19th, June 8th & 9th, from 1-4pm.
The Sanguen Dragon Wagon will be on site for coffee and treats! pic.twitter.com/km1YpicVI7

— Sanguen Outreach (@SanguenOutreach) May 13, 2022
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  • Hold the Line
    • Hold the Line Response to the Regional Official Plans draft policies
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  • Dufferin Lived Experience Collective ​
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    • Legislated and Institutional Poverty of ODSP Recipients
    • ​Motel Living
    • Racism in my world
    • Poverty and Homelessness
    • More digital stories
 
  • ​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​
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  • Addressing and Supporting the Student Housing Experience - Conestoga Students Report​​

While respecting property owners rights to decide use of their held land, clearly we must provide alternate options... where may these people exist while WE fail to provide adequate alternate options??????#unsheltered #solutions https://t.co/Uz4dFAm6tk

— Regan Sunshine Brusse (@ReganBrusse) May 4, 2022
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  • ​​People at Kitchener Homeless encampment can now use washrooms at St. John's Kitchen - CBC
  • More support needed while Region builds permanent shelter in Waterloo - CTV
  • Fall fate of Victoria encampment residents uncertain - The Record
  • Opinion: A surprise behind every door - The Record
  • Opinion: Five Reasons the Region of Waterloo won't evict the homeless from Victoria encampment - 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
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  • Regional Council meeting April 27, 2022 - re: 12.2 - CSD-HOU-22-13, Supporting those Experiencing Unsheltered Homelessness ​
    • Region of Waterloo News and Public Notices: ​Making Decisions that Matter - April 27, 2022
    • "Enough is enough!": 519 Community Collective founder speaks out
    • Washrooms for the most vulnerable - Region of Waterloo
    • Living Rough: Washrooms​​

​Please take a moment to review the most recently sent letters, written and relayed by Unsheltered Campaign to our local governing officials November 2021. As sent to:
  • City of Kitchener
  • City of Cambridge
  • City of Waterloo
Engagement Opportunity:
​Places and Spaces​: Kitchener's park and open space strategy

"In April, Lobley and other parks staff attended a virtual meeting of the @UnshelteredC, a grassroots group of people who have been homeless and who work with and advocate for those experiencing homelessness."https://t.co/xc7mawahn9

— Regan Sunshine Brusse (@ReganBrusse) May 2, 2022
 
  • ​​​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​
November 3, 2021 - Region of Waterloo completes engagement process to identify and support those experiencing homelessness

(Findings found in images below as sourced from Region of Waterloo)
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Images above sourced from Region of Waterloo

Waterloo Region ​Yes In My Back Yard
 
  • In Defense of Complexity -Melissa Bowman
  • Evicting the homeless from downtown site will only make it worse - Martin Asling via The Record 

Building Equitable Cities Speaker Series (Video below)

​A Hidden Epidemic: Homelessness and Health Inequity
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(link in title above is source of audio below)

  • 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



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  • Vital Signs - KWCF
    • ​2021 Report - Affordable Housing 
    • Affordable Housing Q&A - October 7, 2021
    • ​UN Sustainable Development Goals
    • KWCF Grants
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​​Alliance Against Poverty: Opinion: The Record's stories on homelessness show urgency of the problem
  • The Record's look at homeless encampments: 
    • "No one that cares enough can do anything and nobody who can do anything cares enough"
    • A difficult line: Municipalities try to balance help for those in encampments with competing concerns
    • ​'Honestly, it's hell on earth': Eddy, 39, has been homeless for about 3 years with no sign of housing to come.
    • ​No releif in sight on washroom issue at victoria encampment
Housing Innovation Roundtable -Update Report 2020 - KWCF
Room for everyone: Human rights and rental house licensing​ - Ontario Human Rights Commission

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​Coming soon/In build currently (Info Pages):
  • ​How to Help: Contributing to Unsheltered Needs and Shelter Supports
  • ​Unsheltered Campaign: Letters & Municipal Engagement Updates​
  • ​Unsheltered: Living the Experience
  • Point In Time Counts
  • Defining Affordability
  • Social Assistance Rates in Ontario: Ontario Works & Ontario Disability Supports Program

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