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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
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  • Blue Sky Horse CKMS Radio Segment - July 25, 2020 - Conversation with  Yes In My Back Yard Co-Founder Martin Asling, Unsheltered Campaign member Lesley Crompton and encampment resident Terry Kaan
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.

This is a consequence of failing to respond to our housing crisis. https://t.co/ZEcu4esS5u

— Waterloo Region YIMBY (@WRYIMBY) March 21, 2022

CKMS interview aired on April 13th, 2020 - COVID Onset - Host Bob Jonkman
Substance Use and Homelessness
“Safe supply provides prescription drugs to those struggling with addiction. It prevents deaths from unregulated street drugs and allows those with the challenge of addiction to take their focus and time off worrying about getting the drug they need and instead work on other challenges like housing, employment or health care."
​Source: "We've never been here before," say Waterloo Region outreach workers

  • March 9, 2022 Waterloo Police Services Board Meeting​
  • Housing Affordablility Task Force 
  • Living Rough: Encampments
  • ​Living Rough: Washrooms
  • The Housing First Approach
"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)
  • Washrooms for the most vulnerable - Region of Waterloo​​
  • Building Better Futures - Region of Waterloo
    • Housing Dashboard 
    • Affordable Housing for All - Building a better future for all
  • Affordable Housing Strategy: Discussion Paper and Recommendations (Page 24) - City of Waterloo
Agenda for above 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
Community and Infrastructure Services Committee
​City of Kitchener - Housing for All Program Update
  • City Council Columns - March 2022 - Kitchener Citizen​​​​​

  • A Canadian’s Right to Housing: How Do We Get There - University of Waterloo Alumni Speakers Series (Information about the below video session)

The Right to Housing framework gives us the unique & important opportunity to prioritize human rights in the way we govern ourselves. Click ⬇️ to read @leilanifarha's full comments to Canada's Standing Committee on Finance □□ #maketheshift #righttohousinghttps://t.co/zlRLJv2I8G pic.twitter.com/3nRWWvEICU

— The Shift (@Make_TheShift) March 21, 2022
  • Alliance Statement on Occupation - Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa
  • Young women often feel alone, isolated as they move from homeless to housed: WLU research - CBC News​
  • ​Stories and Narratives Report on the 2021 Point In Time Count

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