MY MOTHER NAMED ME SUNSHINE
  • Home
    • Connecting with our WR Municipalities & Local Democracy
    • Human Rights - Leaning in & Learning >
      • A Human Rights approach to encampments - What does this mean?
      • Exploring the Key Principles of "A National Protocol for Homeless Encampments in Canada"
      • Draft Policy – Encampments on Region-Owned Public Lands
    • Living Rough >
      • Living Rough: Warming & Cooling Centres
      • Info Page: Living Rough: Encampments
      • Living Rough: Victoria/Weber Encampment 1.0: Summer Recap
      • Living Rough: Washrooms
      • Unsheltered: Living the Experince
    • Advocacy - Nickles and Dimes >
      • Open Letter: ​Seeking aid for Unsheltered in face of current Extreme Weather Crisis
      • CAEH Conference Ottawa 2024
      • WR Women's Shelter - What's going on? Regional Council Meeting
      • 519 Community Collective: Enough is Enough
      • Me Proposal Jan 13th 2020 Details
      • Unsheltered Campaign Letters to Local Municipalities
      • Unsheltered Campaign 2022 Municipal Candidate Pledge
      • My "nickel": Victoria and Weber Encampment
      • Love, compassion and a whole lot of action!
      • As we start having more of the difficult conversations surrounding Unsheltered lives
      • Social Justice Housing Rally
      • On the right to adequate housing
      • Host Bob Jonkman connects with Regan Sunshine Brusse , Anti-Poverty activist with the Alliance Against Poverty
      • The Record: Letter to the Editor re: oneROOF Funding Loss
      • Community Forum: Videos
      • Alliance Against Poverty Supports Local Grassroot Plea For Aid
      • Blue Sky Horse Radio Segment - Martin Asling, Lesley Crompton, And Terry Kaan
    • Around here - Older content
    • Municipal Meeting Pages >
      • April 23, 2025 Regional Council Meeting & 100 Vic. Proposed Bylaw April 23, 2025
      • WRPS Board Meeting June 12, 2024
      • October 12, 2022 Region of Waterloo Council Meeting
      • August 18, 2022 Regional Council Meeting
      • June 22nd Regional Council Meeting
      • August 9, 2022 Regional Community Services Comittee Meeting
      • Region of Waterloo Council Meeting April 27, 2022
      • May 9. 2022 -Region of Waterloo Community Services Committee Meeting
      • November 15, 2021: 2022 Plan & Budget Development- Com. of Whole
      • 2022 Budget public input session- Regional Council November 8, 2021
      • November 9th, 2021- Committee of the Whole Regional meeting
      • Proposed November 17, 2021 To Waterloo Regional Council
      • June 26, 2023 City of Kitchener Council Meeting
      • December 6, 2022 Region of Waterloo Meetings
    • Advocacy Resources - Broad
    • Social Media
  • Home
    • Connecting with our WR Municipalities & Local Democracy
    • Human Rights - Leaning in & Learning >
      • A Human Rights approach to encampments - What does this mean?
      • Exploring the Key Principles of "A National Protocol for Homeless Encampments in Canada"
      • Draft Policy – Encampments on Region-Owned Public Lands
    • Living Rough >
      • Living Rough: Warming & Cooling Centres
      • Info Page: Living Rough: Encampments
      • Living Rough: Victoria/Weber Encampment 1.0: Summer Recap
      • Living Rough: Washrooms
      • Unsheltered: Living the Experince
    • Advocacy - Nickles and Dimes >
      • Open Letter: ​Seeking aid for Unsheltered in face of current Extreme Weather Crisis
      • CAEH Conference Ottawa 2024
      • WR Women's Shelter - What's going on? Regional Council Meeting
      • 519 Community Collective: Enough is Enough
      • Me Proposal Jan 13th 2020 Details
      • Unsheltered Campaign Letters to Local Municipalities
      • Unsheltered Campaign 2022 Municipal Candidate Pledge
      • My "nickel": Victoria and Weber Encampment
      • Love, compassion and a whole lot of action!
      • As we start having more of the difficult conversations surrounding Unsheltered lives
      • Social Justice Housing Rally
      • On the right to adequate housing
      • Host Bob Jonkman connects with Regan Sunshine Brusse , Anti-Poverty activist with the Alliance Against Poverty
      • The Record: Letter to the Editor re: oneROOF Funding Loss
      • Community Forum: Videos
      • Alliance Against Poverty Supports Local Grassroot Plea For Aid
      • Blue Sky Horse Radio Segment - Martin Asling, Lesley Crompton, And Terry Kaan
    • Around here - Older content
    • Municipal Meeting Pages >
      • April 23, 2025 Regional Council Meeting & 100 Vic. Proposed Bylaw April 23, 2025
      • WRPS Board Meeting June 12, 2024
      • October 12, 2022 Region of Waterloo Council Meeting
      • August 18, 2022 Regional Council Meeting
      • June 22nd Regional Council Meeting
      • August 9, 2022 Regional Community Services Comittee Meeting
      • Region of Waterloo Council Meeting April 27, 2022
      • May 9. 2022 -Region of Waterloo Community Services Committee Meeting
      • November 15, 2021: 2022 Plan & Budget Development- Com. of Whole
      • 2022 Budget public input session- Regional Council November 8, 2021
      • November 9th, 2021- Committee of the Whole Regional meeting
      • Proposed November 17, 2021 To Waterloo Regional Council
      • June 26, 2023 City of Kitchener Council Meeting
      • December 6, 2022 Region of Waterloo Meetings
    • Advocacy Resources - Broad
    • Social Media
Search by typing & pressing enter

YOUR CART

Regional Council Meeting August 18, 2022

Agenda includes:
  • (7.1.2.) Community Services Committee Summary - Interim Response to Homelessness - August 9, 2022 34 - Recommended Motion
  • (8.1. CSD-HOU-22-19), Interim Housing Solutions for Regional Residents Experiencing Homelessness
​
Delegations: 
  • Meagan Snyder, Unsheltered Campaign
  • ​Ed Edwards, Kitchener
  • David Alton, Julian Ichim and Mauleek Bhatt, Kitchener's Lived Expertise Working Group
  • Brooklin Wallis, Kitchener
  • Kevin White, Waterloo Region Yes in My Backyard
  • Robert Deutschmann, North Dumfries
  • Laura Pin, Hamilton​

Related Recent Meetings: 
  • August 9, 2022 Regional Community Services Committee Meeting
  • Regional Council Meeting June 22, 2022


  • "It's taken a crisis" for Waterloo Region government to change approach to homelessness - The Record
  • Outdoor hybrid shelters get the green light from regional council - CBC
  • Yes, to a new sanctioned tent city - The Record
  • Region considers new homeless strategy that could include region-run encampments - City News
  • Waterloo Region to address homelessness- CTV
  • Regional council to hear more on interim response to homelessness - City News​​
  • A Better Tent City inspires how-to book - The Record​​

"That’s why the regional government is right to seek the go-ahead from a judge in November to proceed with the eviction notice it’s issued to the encampment residents."

Sanctioning and forceful evictions are opposites when it comes to human rights approach to encampments.

— Social Development Centre Waterloo Region (@sdcwr) August 29, 2022

The Region of Waterloo council approved a series of measures on Thursday to help ease the growing homelessness crisis, including a first-ever decision to permit an encampment. https://t.co/au9zU7qIRE

— CTV Kitchener (@CTVKitchener) August 19, 2022
  • Emergency overnight shelter beside Kitchener high school to continue operating until end of September - City News
  • Eviction application gives window into 
    Victoria camp
     - The Record​​
  • Eviction of Weber Street encampment now before the courts - CBC
  • Decision on Region of Waterloo's eviction order for Victoria encampment pushed to November - The Record
  • Human Rights of homeless ignored by cities fighting encampments, says former U.N. special rapporteur (article)- CBC 
    • ​Radio Segment with Morning Edition - CBC


​

  • Housing: A Human Right
  • Unsheltered Campaign: Letters and Recent Engagements
  • How to Help: Contributing to Unsheltered Needs and Shelter Supports (In ongoing build)  
  • ​​The Criminalization of Homelessness
  • Living Rough: Encampments
  • ​Living Rough: Washrooms
  • The Housing First Approach
  • Substance Use and Homelessness

Because there must always be music...



Website built, designed, and managed by Regan Sunshine Brussé