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Living Rough: Washrooms

"Finally, and this is a tough one, should the region provide portable toilets, washing as well as garbage removal facilities at encampments such as the one beside Kitchener’s train station while trying to find alternative housing for the residents?" 
-Source: Heed the voices from those living in Waterloo Region's encampments
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  • Waterloo Region council OKs washrooms for unhoused Kitchener residents - The Record
  • Region of Waterloo News and Public Notices:​Making Decisions that Matter - April 27, 2022
  • "The fact that they're debating this means it's possible": Region tables plan to provide toilet acces to encampment residents - City News​​

Today I wrote to @Redman4Region and @berryonline re: community members at the encampment at Victoria & Weber.

As the housing crisis rages, we must treat the most vulnerable with dignity, love & care.

No more talk about sanitation stations. Let’s set the date & make it happen.□ pic.twitter.com/CFTB55yU3c

— Laura Mae Lindo (@LauraMaeLindo) April 23, 2022

"Can you imagine how it would feel to find yourself with nowhere to live? It's a years-long wait for affordable housing, and there are very few options for shelter while waiting. Despair." - Source: Homeless people deserve basic dignity and sanitation
  • ​Working Centre would provide 24-hour access to toilets for homeless downtown residents, under proposal to be debated at Waterloo Region council- The Record
  • Site of Kitchener homeless encampment slated for redevelopment: Region of Waterloo -CTV News
  • Region of Waterloo staffer says transit hub will be built at Victoria encampment - The Record

Current "solution" to lack of bathroom access for our local #unsheltered is often to make use of a plastic bag #WhenYouGottaGo.
Are we REALLY "not able" to provide for portapotties @RegionWaterloo? Seems pretty harsh regardless of how its framed as justified.

— Regan Sunshine Brusse (@ReganBrusse) April 12, 2022

“When there is not enough shelter spaces for all in need, not enough housing for people to transition into, no place for these people to lay their heads aside from on the street in their own makeshift homes, who are we, the privileged, the housed, to further degrade them?” - Source: No releif in sight on washroom issue at Victoria encampment

Human dignity for the homeless does matter https://t.co/xVG0cN1bFh via @wr_record

— Regan Sunshine Brusse (@ReganBrusse) April 26, 2022
Region of Waterloo Council Meeting April 27, 2022
  • Re: CSD-HOU-22-13, Supporting those Experiencing Unsheltered Homelessness
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Source: A National Protocol for Homeless Encampments in Canada

"Encampment conditions typically fall far below international human rights standards on a variety of fronts, often lacking even the most basic services like toilets." - A National Protocol for Homeless Encampments in Canada

'We’re not animals': Calls for porta-potties at growing homeless encampment in Kitchener https://t.co/bvaqn1S3oS

— Regan Sunshine Brusse (@ReganBrusse) April 23, 2022

  • Washrooms for the most vulnerable - Region of Waterloo resources
  • ​"Enough is enough!": 519 Community Collective founder speaks out
  • Petition (by 519 Community Collective): 
    • Washrooms are a basic need! We need action now! - Victoria and Weber encampment​
"A place to conduct normal bodily functions in private would provide the barest sliver of human dignity for these folks, and it would be a compassionate act."
​-Source: Residents of tent cities need toilets
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  • Regional council set to debate washroom access at downtown Kitchener encampment -CTV News
  • The Mike Farwell Show April 27, 2022 - 570 News 
    • People living in homeless encampment in Kitchener to be re-located by fall (20:15)
    • Working Centre will provide washroom access to homeless downtown residents (43:09)
  • Homeless encampments to be addressed at Wednesdays regional council meeting - City News
  • A difficult line: Municipalities try to balance help for those in encampments with competing concerns ​ ​-Record News

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How quickly these facilities will become available come festival time...
It seems to matter who holds the need sadly.

— Regan Sunshine Brusse (@ReganBrusse) April 12, 2022


​"Barry struggles with the stereotyping and the “disheartening” fact that many people don’t care about those experiencing homelessness. He wants to be housed.

“No one that cares enough can do anything and nobody that can do anything cares enough,” he said."
-Source: The Record News





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