Personal advocacy and information sharing website of Regan Sunshine Brusse,
Sunshine?
Current Site focus: Affordable Housing, Homelessness, and Unsheltered Lives
(with a dash of everything else)
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

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As published/Sent to REgion of WAterloo September 6, 2023 By Unsheltered Campaign 
(view LEtter at source)

"From: The Unsheltered Campaign
To: Region of Waterloo Council & Regional Housing Services Staff

RE: Closure of Encampment at 150 Main St. in Cambridge
RE: Ending of Motel Shelter Program

We are writing to express our dismay about two recent actions: the involuntary closure of the encampment at 150 Main St. in Cambridge, and the ending of the motel shelter program. Based on our current understanding of these actions, we find that they raise human rights concerns and will cause harm to our unsheltered neighbours." ...
Read the full Unsheltered Campaign letter and view additional related information "around here" : 
150 Main Street, Cambridge - Encampment & Closure

Letter to the Editor: Closing OneROOF a "Devastating" loss to homeless youth - The Record, 2016

​Intended Future Pages:​​

Some Pieces of these puzzles

Renoviction -
​Righting the Reno-Wrong
Advancing your rights when threatened with displacement

September 21, 2023
​6:30-8:30 PM

Registration and more information available at:
www.WRCommunityTownHalls.ca

​Canadian Association to End Homelessness - National Conference November 2022: 

​Engage Waterloo Region: Interim Housing Solutions: 
​From above link:
"Interim Housing Solutions StrategyWe are moving forward with an Interim Housing Solutions strategy to address this challenging situation, using four key tools:
  • Expanding the Transitional Housing Program;
  • Expanding the Home-Based Support Program;
  • Expanding the Emergency Shelter Program; and
  • Permitting a temporary managed Hybrid Shelter/Outdoor Model.
In addition, we will create a Plan to End Chronic Homelessness, which will guide the Region’s work to prevent and end homelessness." 
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Find out more, offer your input, or sign up for updates at engageWR.ca

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A City For Everyone (video below) includes speakers from: 
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For more information or to arrange a donation please email Jaime.Stief@gmail.com

​Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy (LISPOP) 2022 Housing Forum Full Video Playlist (Intro found below)  
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​A Hidden Epidemic: Homelessness and Health Inequity
​(link in title above is source of audio below)

Waterloo Region ​Yes In My Back Yard 
Building Equitable Cities Speaker Series (Video below)
Room for everyone: Human rights and rental house licensing​ - Ontario Human Rights Commission
 

Because there must always be music...