Unsheltered: Living The Experience 

​
Local Groups with Lived Experience of homelessness Members:

• Alliance Against Poverty (AAP)
• Awareness of Low Income Voices (ALIV(e)
• Kitchener Lived Experience Working Group (LEWG)
• Peoples Action Group (PAG)
• Unsheltered Campaign (UC)

(Please reach out and let me know if I've missed your group in the list above! < < < Click) 

---

• Dufferin Lived Experience Collective ​
  • Home
  • Legislated and Institutional Poverty of ODSP Recipients
  • ​Motel Living
  • Racism in my world
  • Poverty and Homelessness
  • More digital stories

• The Record's look at homeless encampments: 
  • "No one that cares enough can do anything and nobody who can do anything cares enough"
  • A difficult line: Municipalities try to balance help for those in encampments with competing concerns
  • ​'Honestly, it's hell on earth': Eddy, 39, has been homeless for about 3 years with no sign of housing to come.
  • ​No releif in sight on washroom issue at Victoria encampment
  • View Full Series...
    

• ​​​The Exposure Project: A selection of local stories from community members who have experienced homelessness and poverty - Inside Waterloo
  • ​​Volume 1
  • Volume 2

• Young women often feel alone, isolated as they move from homeless to housed: WLU research - CBC News​​​​
• Living Rough: Victoria/Weber Encampment 1.0: Summer 2022 Recap

We're continuing to share some stories from the residents of the Victoria/Weber encampment in Kitchener, ahead of the June 30th eviction date. pic.twitter.com/Fcaf3iTB6I

— insideWaterloo (@InsideWaterloo) June 19, 2022

​​

• Point In TIme Count of Homeless - Stories and Narratives - Social Development Centre Waterloo Region

• ​Turning up the volume: Life Stories of Displacement
  • Listen to the podcasts​​

"I want today to function as a bridge of communication for silenced, disenpowered, invisible voices of actual #grassroots, in relation to this issue"
- (2020) Heather Majaury shares with Council a recording of local testimonials of lived experience (Video as set below)

In including "lived experience" voices, we must consider the broad array of their experience, and neither suggest nor suppose that their experiences of trauma are their sole realm of knowledge.
Negating their full experience infers that parroting their trauma is their sole use.

— Regan Sunshine Brusse (@ReganBrusse) March 27, 2022

---

• ​​The Criminalization of Homelessness
• Housing: A Human Right
• 2022: The State of Our Municipalities
• Regional Council meeting April 27, 2022
  • re: 12.2 - CSD-HOU-22-13, Supporting those Experiencing Unsheltered Homelessness ​
• 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

because there must always be music....