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          • Human Rights-Based Responses to Encampments Following the 100 Victoria Court Ruling - Human Rights & Housing Fights
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        • CAEH Conference Ottawa 2024
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CKMS interview aired on April 13th, 2020 - COVID Onset
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More recently as brought forth by Unsheltered Campaign and in citizen petition...
(Winter 2021)

Please take a moment to review the most recently sent letters, written and relayed by Unsheltered Campaign to our local governing officials. As sent to:
  • City of Kitchener
  • City of Cambridge
  • City of Waterloo​

Locally a petition has also come forth, providing for independent citizens to add their support to an immediate moratorium on encampment eviction in Waterloo Region: 

You can read this and add your signature here: 
"Petition calling for a moratorium on encampment evictions in Waterloo Region".
2020 - "Regan Sunshine Brussé is an anti-poverty activist working with the Alliance Against Poverty, and is now working to find shelter for those left unsheltered during the COVID-19 pandemic."

Sign the petition (2020): We need a fighting chance for our unsheltered residents!

Interview begins at 11m53s.
Audio sourced from 102.7 CKMS Radio page here

Find out more about the Social Justice Housing Rally

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Let's work with the unsheltered.
​Let's talk to them about what they're looking for,
​what they need,
and how it works for them,
not what we think should work for them.

Lesley Crompton

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  • 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​

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