Winter 2021
In local Unsheltered related news coverage:
- Gimme shelter, gimme empathy - inside Waterloo
- Morrice joins the calls to freeze the WR police budget and reallocate funds into community-based services (19:56) - Mike Farwell Show
- Petition calls for a moratorium on homeless encampment evictions in Waterloo Region (20:30) - Kitchener Today with Brian Bourke
- Local organization wants homeles encampments to remain in place over the winter -City News
- "Gross and inhumane" destruction of tent community in Kitchener should motivate us to act -The Record-Opinion
- Marjorie Knight shares her experience with homelessness (42:15) - The Mike Farwell Show
Worth a peek information peices and documents:
In conversation around here:
- Proposed November 17th, 2021 to Regional Council in seeking temporary solution to homeless displacement - Content and related links
- Looking more at Unsheltered displacement - Blog Post 25/11/21
- Love, compassion, and positive action! - Blog Post 28/11/21
- Regional Council discusses the recent encampment displacement - Update - 29/11/21
- November 9, 2021 Committee of the Whole Regional Council
Some Grassroot Updates:
Photo taken April 8th, 2020 - COVID onset
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Photo taken April 8th, 2020 - COVID onset
The area was cleaned up very quickly once this photo went up. Those sheltering from the wind here then displaced, no longer allowed to be there though seeking little more than sanctuary. The visibility of the issues disappeared, yet the core barriers, lack of shelter among them, remained. Please take a moment to review the most recently sent letters, written and relayed by Unsheltered Campaign to our local governing officials. As sent to: Locally a petition has also come forth, providing for independent citizens to add their support to an immediate moratorium on encampment eviction in Waterloo Region: You can read this "Petition calling for a moratorium on encampment evictions in Waterloo Region" and add your signature here.
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