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      • Draft Policy – Encampments on Region-Owned Public Lands
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      • Living Rough: Victoria/Weber Encampment 1.0: Summer Recap
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      • CAEH Conference Ottawa 2024
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      • 519 Community Collective: Enough is Enough
      • Me Proposal Jan 13th 2020 Details
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      • As we start having more of the difficult conversations surrounding Unsheltered lives
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      • The Record: Letter to the Editor re: oneROOF Funding Loss
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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

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

"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

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

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​

 

  • 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"... ​

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