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
February 25, 2003
New York: Volunteers Gather to Count the City's Homeless
New York Times: "About 1,000 volunteers gathered late last night at twelve areas in Manhattan and began fanning out after midnight in the city's first comprehensive effort to survey the homeless."
February 17, 2003
Swing in the Park
ROOF (Reaching Our Outdoor Friends) is holding its annual Swing in the Park fund-raising dance Friday, Feb. 28 at Victoria Park Pavilion from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Live music will be provided by Nightlife. There will be raffles, door prizes, live and silent auctions, plus hors d'oeuvres from some of the finer local restaurants. Tickets are only $35 per person. Call 742-2788 or e-mail info@roof-agency.com.
February 15, 2003
Toronto: Two churches planning affordable homes
Toronto Star: "An affordable housing project in Toronto may become a model for resolving a national housing shortage, project proponents say."
February 03, 2003
Study aids minimum wage debate
Globe and Mail: "They work, but they're poor and they come to public attention only occasionally, even though they have been the target of social policy for more than a century. Most of the time, they're invisible because they are utterly unorganized and thus -- in this age of interest-group politics -- unheard. They are Canada's minimum wage workers and they number 580,000, enough to populate a sizable city. Even so, no one has tracked them methodically, chronicling their financial condition and giving them a statistical profile with a human face. Until now."
February 01, 2003
Losing a home for the homeless
Toronto Star: "StreetCity was supposed to act as a transitional residence for two years, not 13."
Mira thrives, but mothers rarely do - homeless women share stories
Toronto Star: "'GIMMEE LOVE,' says Jazzy's T-shirt, about something that's been in pretty short supply during her 19 tortured years on this earth. She's pregnant and living on the streets of Toronto, like some 300 other homeless women who give birth each year in the city."