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    • Connecting with our WR Municipalities & Local Democracy
    • Human Rights - Leaning in & Learning >
      • A Human Rights approach to encampments - What does this mean?
      • Exploring the Key Principles of "A National Protocol for Homeless Encampments in Canada"
      • Draft Policy – Encampments on Region-Owned Public Lands
    • Living Rough >
      • Living Rough: Warming & Cooling Centres
      • Info Page: Living Rough: Encampments
      • Living Rough: Victoria/Weber Encampment 1.0: Summer Recap
      • Living Rough: Washrooms
      • Unsheltered: Living the Experince
    • Advocacy - Nickles and Dimes >
      • Dear RoW: Your Bylaw is Faulty (& Your Politics Kinda Suck) - Seeking Change: Nickels & Dimes
      • Open Letter: ​Seeking aid for Unsheltered in face of current Extreme Weather Crisis
      • CAEH Conference Ottawa 2024
      • WR Women's Shelter - What's going on? Regional Council Meeting
      • 519 Community Collective: Enough is Enough
      • Me Proposal Jan 13th 2020 Details
      • Unsheltered Campaign Letters to Local Municipalities
      • Unsheltered Campaign 2022 Municipal Candidate Pledge
      • My "nickel": Victoria and Weber Encampment
      • Love, compassion and a whole lot of action!
      • As we start having more of the difficult conversations surrounding Unsheltered lives
      • Social Justice Housing Rally
      • On the right to adequate housing
      • Host Bob Jonkman connects with Regan Sunshine Brusse , Anti-Poverty activist with the Alliance Against Poverty
      • The Record: Letter to the Editor re: oneROOF Funding Loss
      • Community Forum: Videos
      • Alliance Against Poverty Supports Local Grassroot Plea For Aid
      • Blue Sky Horse Radio Segment - Martin Asling, Lesley Crompton, And Terry Kaan
    • Around here - Older content
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      • April 23, 2025 Regional Council Meeting & 100 Vic. Proposed Bylaw April 23, 2025
      • WRPS Board Meeting June 12, 2024
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      • August 9, 2022 Regional Community Services Comittee Meeting
      • Region of Waterloo Council Meeting April 27, 2022
      • May 9. 2022 -Region of Waterloo Community Services Committee Meeting
      • November 15, 2021: 2022 Plan & Budget Development- Com. of Whole
      • 2022 Budget public input session- Regional Council November 8, 2021
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      • Proposed November 17, 2021 To Waterloo Regional Council
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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
Read More Related News Coverage

Worth a peek information peices and documents:

  • ​Stories and Narratives Report on the 2021 Point In Time Count​
  • Decriminalize Homeless Encampments in WR​
    • Unsheltered Campaign ​
  • ​Turning up the volume: Life Stories of Displacement
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  • ​City of Kitchener Housing Needs Assessment - January 2020​

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
    • Point In Time Count​
  • December 8th, 2021: 2022 Region of Waterloo Plan and Budget meetings
  • December 15th, 2021: Plan & Budget Development meetings
Read more...

Some Grassroot Updates: 

Hey @berryonline,
As a citizen of Kitchener, I am wondering if you, as my Mayor, might be interested in adding your signature in support of the below petition?
Worth a peak and consideration (?) if you have time available. Stay well! #unsheltered #WatReg #solidarity https://t.co/UWrj8qwEM8

— Regan Sunshine Brusse (@ReganBrusse) December 2, 2021

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Above quote from: Local organization wants homeless encampments to remain in place over the winter

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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:
  • City of Kitchener
  • City of Cambridge
  • City of Waterloo

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.

Please take a moment to review the most recently sent letters, written and relayed by @UnshelteredC to our local governing officials. As sent to:@CityKitchener @citywaterloo @cityofcambridge @CivicHubWR
Links on my main page at https://t.co/vDEmRnLKx5

— Regan Sunshine Brusse (@ReganBrusse) December 2, 2021

November 2021

Love, compassion, and positive action!
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 Local to waterloo region Grassroot Groups, Organizations, and initiatives (Links)

  • 50 by 30 Waterloo Region
  • A Better Tent City
  • Alliance Against Poverty
  • Awareness of Low Income Voices
  • Canadian Federation of University Women
  • Community Legal Services Waterloo Region
  • Conestoga Students Inc.
  • Disabilities and Human Rights
  • Divest Waterloo
  • Fair Vote Waterloo Region
  • Food Not Bombs
  • Green Light Arts
  • Ground Up WR
  • ​KW Community Co-op Kitchen
  • KW Peace
  • KW Urban Native Wigwam Project
  • MT Space
  • Neruda Arts
  • Peace for All Canada
  • People’s Action Group
  • Reception House Waterloo Region
  • Scaled Purpose
  • Shamrose for Syrian Culture
  • Social Development Centre Waterloo Region
  • SPECTRUM
  • Spiritual Heritage Education Network
  • Waterloo Region Community Garden Network
  • Waterloo Region Yes In My Back Yard
  • ​​519 Community Collective
Please email [email protected] to have your local link added or to report errors on above linked locations.

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