Homelessness in Waterloo Region

The Waterloo Region Community Homelessness Network has been restructured and renamed the Waterloo Region Housing and Homelessness Umbrella Group. A website was launched in November 22, 2006. For current information about the activities of the HHUG go to www.hhug.ca

This homelessness webpage will maintain archival material from the Homelessness Network

September 28, 2001

Draft Plan Submitted

The Working Group submitted the draft community plan to the federal government, which funded the development of the plan, on September 28. The Hon. Claudette Bradshaw, the minister responsible for homelessness, is expected to give her approval to the document within the next few weeks. When approved, the plan will guide how resources will be allocated to future actions over the coming months. Please stay tuned for the official announcement of the release.

September 13, 2001

Sept. 12 Community Homelessness Forum

Based on all of the community inputs and findings from the planning process, the Working Group undertook a collective process of sorting through all the information to identify common themes. Four broad community priorities were identified.

On September 12, an all-day, Region-wide forum was held at St. John's Lutheran Church in Waterloo to review all of the input gathered and consider the priorities and strategic directions. More than 100 people - members of the public, homeless and at-risk people, and representatives of service providers, business, education, faith groups, governments and health services - participated. The participants confirmed the four broad priorities and prioritized strategic directions within each priority. Each of these priority areas - which cover the continuum of supports for people who are homeless or at-risk - is seen as equally as important as all the others. Read more.

Download the Priorities Document. (83KB PDF)