Community Services Committee Meeting May 10, 2022

Agenda

• CSD-HOU-22-10, Emergency Shelter Planning Update 
• CSD-HOU-22-11, Waterloo Region Housing Master Plan Update and Amendments

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Related Local Coverage

• Region forecasts 990 new affordable homes in 2022 Building Better Futures Update - Region of Waterloo
• Cambridge encampment get 60-day eviction notice - The Record
• Region looks to add more affordable housing properties for redevelopment - City News
• Fall fate of Victoria camp residents uncertain - The Record
• House of Friendship's new Waterloo shelter now expecting to open this fall - Cambridge Today
• Affordable housing unit offers Waterloo woman an "opportunity at life" 15 years later - The Record
• The Mike Farwell Show - Housing First is not the only approach to homelessness (1:24:43)
• ​Affordable housing, homelessness among top issues for Kitchener residents: Survey - City News
• Womans Crisis Services of Waterloo Region expanding - City News 
• Womans Crisis Services of Waterloo Region buys a new transitional home for women fleeing violence - The Record
• Opinion: Small taste of how the other half lives leaves me feeling powerless to change the world - The Record

• Stronger Together: Making a difference during the COVID-19 pandemic - CTV News

Work is underway to convert the former Comfort Inn in Waterloo into a 100-bed men’s shelter. https://t.co/gmxiM2pXm0

— Waterloo Chronicle (@wlchronicle) May 9, 2022

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Please take a moment to review the most recently sent letters, written and relayed by Unsheltered Campaign to our local governing officials in November 2021. As sent to:

• City of Kitchener
• City of Cambridge
• City of Waterloo​

Above quote source: A National Protocol for Homeless Encampements in Canada

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"Politicians recognize there likely won’t be enough housing for every person living rough by the fall."
So, how exactly do we have a 'housing first' policy if we don't actually have enough housing? https://t.co/aB1kMzTb92

— Melissa Bowman (@m2bowman) May 6, 2022

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• In Defense of Complexity ​-By Melissa Bowman
• The Housing First Approach
• Housing: A Human Right
• 2022: The State of Our Municipalities
  

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RElated Previous Council Policy Review

December 15, 2021 - Agenda for below video included (as set to begin at): 

• 2:12:50 PDL-LEG-21-70, Policy Review of Region Bylaw 13-050 – Use or Occupation of Region-owned Public Land

• ​The Right to Housing in Action - The National Right to Housing Network
• ​​Neo-Vagrancy Bylaws Across Canada
• ​Encampments in Waterloo Region: An Environmental Scan and Recommendations for Best Practices
• Encampments in Municipal Parks - Canadian Bar Association
• A National Protocol for Homeless Encampments in Canada​

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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
• Regional Council meeting April 27, 2022 - re: 12.2 - CSD-HOU-22-13, Supporting those Experiencing Unsheltered Homelessness ​
  
• More pages "around here"... ​

BEcause there must always be music...