​Dear city of cambridge (CC: Region of waterloo)
​Cutting Through the (Seemingly Bovine) 'Fecal Matter'.

Understanding the Growing Divide:
Another Look at Local Data

2026 Edition

TO be added: 

Consultation or Confirmation?
The June 16, 2026 Region of Waterloo
​Special Council Meeting

On June 16, council held a special meeting to hear delegations on whether to appeal the recent court verdict. Delegations spoke eloquently to the implications as they saw them, and council proceeded to make their decision.

Precariously Unsheltered:
​​​Witnessing the eviction cycle
​in waterloo region
​

​This space provides compiled information, bearing witness to local unsheltered evictions, some of which I’ve personally observed over time.
​
The events listed here do not offer a full picture of how frequently this is happening, reflecting only those I was aware of and permitted to share about or for which I found information available.

These types of evictions continue to happen despite people having no meaningful alternatives within which to find relief.

Now Available from 'Realizing the right': 

No PLace Else to go:
Surveying the Human Rights experiences
​of Encampment Residents in ontario 

'No Place Else to Go: Surveying the Human Rights Experiences of Encampment Residents in Ontario' is a seven-part report series. 
Rather than releasing our survey findings as a single publication, as we did with our policy report, we are sharing this research incrementally through a series of interconnected reports. Alongside an overview of the research process and findings, the series includes individual reports dedicated to each of the human rights pillars explored through the survey. We hope this approach allows for each theme to be examined in greater depth while fostering broader community dialogue.
The reports in this series are each authored by different members of the project team. While each report can be read independently, together they provide a comprehensive account of the project's methodology, evidence, and findings concerning human rights and encampments in Ontario.

Contributing Authors: ​

  • Shabeeh Ahmad
  • Mauleek Bhatt
  • Regan Sunshine Brussé
  • Erin Dej​
  • Jammy Lo
  • Sidney Macdonald
  • Laura Pin

Part 1/7

'Building the Evidence: Survey Design, Data Collection, and Research Highlights' is the first in our series of reports. It outlines how we designed the survey and collected the data, and offers a brief overview of our research findings, which are then discussed in more detail in subsequent reports. 

Human Rights & Housing Fights:

Presentation to the ​​Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) on August 4, 2026

​Barriers to Belonging:
​Examining Service Access

The Realizing the Right research project combines a policy scan of municipal neo-vagrancy bylaws and encampment protocols with a survey of 105 people who have lived in an encampment within the previous year.

This presentation brings together both pieces of our research, with presenters looking at the municipal policy report findings and the lived experience survey findings in deeper examination of "Pillar 3: Equitable and Accessible Social Services". 

Build zone - theoretically Intended Topic/point coverage
(some currently unexpanded trains of thought I may or may not get to)

  • Which region pages are available offering points of clarity around local demand or capacity related figures?
    • which meetings, minutes or staff reports? (most recent?) 

​Housing Continuum : 
  • service definitions & housing types re: Housing stability system?

​​More pages from "around here":

Because there Must always be music...