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      • December 6, 2022 Region of Waterloo Meetings
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      • Unsheltered Campaign 2022 Municipal Candidate Pledge
      • October 12, 2022 Region of Waterloo Council Meeting
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      • Criminalization of Homelessness
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      • State of the City/Region by Local Municipalities
      • Substance Use and Homelessness
      • Housing Affordability Task Force
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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.
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Solely me & my views on this website... but in transparency: 

Thrilled to join @robdeutschmann's team and support his elected role and community efforts! https://t.co/3w7OmkKXkA

— Regan Sunshine Brusse (@ReganBrusse) November 17, 2022

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Local Resources - Waterloo Region

​Information PAges:

  • February 1, 2023 - RoW Strategic Planning and Budget Committee (Police Budget)
  • February 1, 2023 Strategic Planning and Budget Committee100 Victoria - Court Verdict & Information Links
  • January 18, 2023 Region of Waterloo (Budget) Meetings
  • December 6, 2022 Region of Waterloo Committee Meetings
  • Unsheltered: Living the Experience (In Build)
  • Living Rough: Victoria/Weber Encampment 1.0 - Summer 2022 Recap
  • Candidate Responses on Housing and Homelessness
  • Unsheltered Campaign: 2022 Municipal Election Unsheltered Pledge & Town Hall
  • October 12, 2022 Regional Council Meeting
  • Regional Community Services Committee Meeting October 4, 2022
  • Regional Council Meeting August 18, 2022
  • August 9, 2022 Regional Community Services Committee Meeting
  • Regional Council Meeting June 22, 2022
  • Unsheltered Campaign: Letters and Recent Engagements
  • As we start having more of the difficult conversations surrounding Unsheltered lives
  • Victoria and Weber encampment: My "nickel" June 2, 2022
  • ​​The Criminalization of Homelessness
  • Housing: A Human Right
  • ​May 10th, 2022 Regional Community Services Meeting, 9AM
  • 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

(Updated as able... Always so much more to post!) 
Canadian Association to End Homelessness - National Conference November 2022: 
  • A Way Home – Youth Homelessness Prevention 
  • Accelerating Reductions in Chronic and Veteran Homelessness 
  • Canadian Observatory on Homelessness – Research and Policy
  • Canadian Observatory on Homelessness – Prevention 
  • Health Care and Homelessness 
  • Housing First
  • Indigenous Homelessness  
  • Leadership, Improvement and Change Management
  • Lived Experience 
  • Paula Goering Memorial Scholarship 
  • Realizing the Right to Housing 
  • Responding to Unsheltered Homelessness 
  • Rural and Remote Homelessness 
  • Unique Populations 
  • Women’s Homelessness

​Engage Waterloo Region: Interim Housing Solutions
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​From above link:
"Interim Housing Solutions Strategy

We 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 Homelessness Master Plan, which will guide the Region’s work to prevent and end homelessness." 

Find out more, offer your input and sign up for updates at engageWR.ca

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A City For Everyone (video below) includes speakers from: 
  • Waterloo Region Community Legal Services
  • ​Waterloo Region Yes In My Back Yard 
  • Advocacy Center for Tenants Ontario (ACTO)
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  • Hold the Line
    • Hold the Line Response to the Regional Official Plans draft policies​
  • 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​
  • 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
Room for everyone: Human rights and rental house licensing​ - Ontario Human Rights Commission
​A Hidden Epidemic: Homelessness and Health Inequity
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(link in title above is source of audio below)

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 Home of My Own - A Guide to Renting in Ontario, designed wiht the input of persons with disabilities, their family members and support organizations!@BtoBelonging https://t.co/yTgOJ1VxLV pic.twitter.com/OYP31uEeU5

— Social Development Centre Waterloo Region (@sdcwr) January 27, 2023

​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 National Housing Strategy By And For Whom? Documented Experiences of People With Living Knowledge of Housing Need
  • ​​Displacement in Kitchener's Inner Suburbs: Experiences and perspectives from low-income tenants
  • International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - United Nations
  • The Shift Directives: From Financialized to Human Rights-Based Housing - Make-The-Shift.org
  • ​November 3, 2021 - Region of Waterloo completes engagement process to identify and support those experiencing homelessness​
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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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  • Addressing and Supporting the Student Housing Experience - Conestoga Students Report​​
  • ​​​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​


  • Housing Innovation Roundtable -Update Report 2020 - KWCF
  • Vital Signs - KWCF
    • ​2021 Report - Affordable Housing 
    • Affordable Housing Q&A - October 7, 2021
    • ​UN Sustainable Development Goals
    • KWCF Grants
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​Coming soon/In build currently (Info Pages):​
  • Point In Time Counts
  • Defining Affordability
  • Social Assistance Rates in Ontario: Ontario Works & Ontario Disability Supports Program

Because there must always be music...




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