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Get your housing thoughts in: 
Your #Unsheltered support is needed! 
The button below is where you can
​check in on what items are
​currently needed in Unsheltered Aid. 
Thank you to all for their support!

City of Kitchener Council Meetings 
​(Watch a meeting link^^^)

Life Stories of Displacement
(very cool!^^^)

"Community works together to protect homeless population from COVID-19 and to plan for winter" 
- RoW Press release, September 24, 2020
For now find more of the recent "tucked away" content here: 

Region to open 3 sites for short-term accomodations to people who are homeless this winter - CBC News

Land Back Camp moves, calls on Waterloo to do more anti-rasicm work - Kitchener Today

Outreach better investment than security guards in Cambridge, agencies say -The Record

Kitchener councillors approve anti-racism plan - The Record    (Related Staff Report to Council)

​"There is a need for 450 units of supportive housing, 5,000 units of community housing and 9,300 units of affordable rental housing. "  - City of Kitchener Special Council Staff Report, Aug 31st, 2020

City of Kitchener Housing Strategy - DRAFT, August 2020
Had the pleasure of joining @MyAudioFace on 98.5 CKWR FM recently in discussion on poverty and our local unsheltered housing crisis. If you missed it online take a moment and tune in below!
(We STILL need water and port-a-potties for our unsheltered!)
​Local encampment resident 
Jukie Daly receiving some water supply provisions
offered in aid
​by the local
​Unsheltered Campaign
“It kind of sucks, right, with everything that’s going on, now they’re trying to kick us out of here,” says Terry Kaan, who is living in the camp. (Source)
Radio Waterloo CKMS 102.7 FM  
​segment with host  
​@BlueSkyHorse  (<Twitter)
You can connect further
with CKMS host ​Yenny Eckstrom online:
Facebook: Blue Sky Horse Radio
or
YouTube: Blue Sky Radio Yenny       
Image source -" Better Understanding Parents in Poverty: Meeting Basic Needs First"

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 If it was doable then, in the wake of a devastating global depression (in the 1930s) and an even more devastating world war (1939-45) it is certainly doable now.

Peter Eglin - "On the Right to Affordable Housing"

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Sign the petition: 
​We need a fighting chance for our unsheltered residents!
"People who are homeless have even fewer options to be informed about supports they could be eligible for as they do not always have cell phones and now have less ability to connect to the internet, their workers, and even the social groups that usually support them. Drop-ins and meal programs, malls and public spaces where they could connect before are closed to them. "

Joint Letter from:
- Awareness of Low Income Voices
- Disabilities & Human Rights
- People’s Action Group 
- Alliance Against Poverty

Listen in to this interview hosted by 
CKMS Radio!
Interview begins at 11:59
​Great tunes on both sides of it! 

"The Struggle Is Real"

"Bank Garnishes Government Assistance
​To Local Anti-Poverty Advocate"
"Along with Regan Sunshine Brussé, we speak with Laura Mae Lindo, the Kitchener Centre representative in provincial parliament and Lea Caragata, a professor of social policy at Wilfrid Laurier University." -SOURCE by Host: Ivan Angelovski
Sign the petition: We need a fighting chance for our unsheltered residents!
Listen in to this interview hosted by 
CKMS Radio!
Interview begins at 11:59 - Great tunes on both sides of it! 
"Turning Up The Volume"
Great music and conversations!
CARE AND PRECAUTIONS FOR UNSHELTERED NOW

​Grassroots Petition Available For Local Individual Citizen Signature
For local groups seeking to add their names, please contact
Social Development Center of  Waterloo Region to be listed.
Here is the reality of many RIGHT NOW in our community. Pictured below.

An Immediate Request On Homeless Needs

April 10th, 2020
1) Immediate cold weather supplies and equipment offered to ALL local residents in need of such, to de distributed to local agencies to pass out accordingly. Cost applied to whomever it suits. At this point in the year this does not need to be expensive. 
As we come together globally, locally, and communally, recognizing our need to protect our most vulnerable, those at most risk of dying in this current crisis, I cannot envision a more eloquent metaphorical image of "we are in it together"!

Let us begin to design and create this interwoven portrait of unity.

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There remain basic survival measures that are lacking for these people. It is still cold outside. They are freezing.

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