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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
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    • About Me
    • Explore Most Recent Site Content
    • Cutting Through the (Seemingly Bovine) 'Fecal Matter'. >
      • “I Think It’s Bullshit”: Encampment Evictions and the Criminalization of Homelessness - Human Rights & Housing Fights >
        • Presentation Content : “I Think It’s Bullshit”: Encampment Evictions and the Criminalization of Homelessness - Human Rights & Housing Fights >
          • Presentation Slides - Large - "I think it's Bullshit" (HR&HF May 21, 2026)
      • A Rights-Based Approach : The Federal Housing Advocate (Report and Webinar)
      • Sheltering with Dignity: ​Safe Tenting as a Human Right >
        • June 2, 2026 Region of Waterloo Meeting - Cutting Through the (Seemingly Bovine) 'Fecal Matter' >
          • 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
      • Understanding the Growing Divide : A Look at Local Data
    • Waterloo Region - Municipal Profile
    • Realizing the Right: Municipal Policy Responses to Encampments >
      • Human Rights & Housing Fights - Presentations - Realizing the Right >
        • 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
    • Nickles and Dimes: Seeking Change >
      • 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? >
        • ERP: Regional Policies
        • ERP: Provincial Acts
      • Social Justice Housing Rally
    • Municipal Meeting Pages
    • Advocacy Resources - Broad
    • Social Media
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Regan Sunshine Brussé is a social justice advocate focused on housing and poverty in Waterloo Region.

Fueled by coffee and conviction, her website blends politics and grassroots action while seeking equitable and positive change in her community.

Chronologically scatttered: A few Touch points of my experiences

  • Person With Lived Experience of Homelessness and Poverty 
  • Began actively advocating on poverty issues in 2015 when I began participating with the (since disolved) Alliance Against Poverty
    • Focus topics of this group were housing, living wage, and free transit for low income individuals
  • Ran in Ward 2 for City of Kitchener Council seat in 2018
  • Community Advocacy Certificate - Conestoga College
  • Bookkeeping Certificate - Conestoga College
  • Tax preparation employment experience and related education/training/knowledge
  • Unsheltered Campaign - Member / Contributor / Co-Creator​
  • City of Kitchener Housing Advisory Committee Member - 2019
    • Blog Post: The Time To Hesitate Is Through
    • Documents & Reports: 
      •  Housing Needs Assessment - City of Kitchener
  • Volunteer roles in participation with Region of Waterloo housing functions: 
    • Plan to End Chronic Homelessness (PECH)
      • Co-Creators & Prototyping functions  - RoW & SDCWR Streams
    • "Unsheltered Working Group" and "Housing and Homelessness Advisory Meetings" -  (RoW)
      • Blog post: ​​As we start having more of the difficult conversations surrounding unsheltered lives - Jan. 2022
  • Wilfrid Laurier University - Project Reseach Assistant: "Realizing the Right to Housing: Municipal Policy Responses to Encampments"
  • Organizer and content creator for WRCommunityTownHalls.ca
    • ​Duties included within employment roll for Rob Deutschmann (position held through duration of  his time on Region of Waterloo Council - 2022-2025)
      • ​Job title: Community Outreach Coordinator For Regional Councillor Rob Deutschmann

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