Trinity United Church

We were blessed to be able to provide some support for agencies working in the affordable housing sector this year. Here's one of them:

A Thank you from Sanguen — Trinity United Church As part of our mission to support Affordable Housing in Kitchener-Waterloo, we made a donation to Sanguen of · $20,000 to Sanguen Health Centre for ‘Peer Support for the Sanguen Drop in Space’. With the closure of the CTS sites (Consumption and Treatment Sites) on April 1, 2025 many in our comm...

This week we’re joined by Brian Paul who shares the amazing work being done by his team at Supportive Housing of Waterloo (SHOW). Brian chats about the need for the federal government to help dispel myths about homelessness, and to return to being in the business of creating social housing stock to create more affordable housing across the country.

https://hubleadership.podbean.com/e/winter-is-coming-a-housing-justice-podcast-ep-26-show-the-need-for-federal-social-housing-with-brian-paul

This week we’re joined by Jay Straus the Transitional Housing Lead at the Working Centre and Site Lead for the Tiny Home Shelter on Erb’s Road, Waterloo. Jay shares his own personal experiences of being homeless, and how he came to the be with The Working Centre. He also shares how ‘The Cabins’ transitions 20% of their residents to more permanent housing, and how they navigate conflict with neighbours and what restorative justice means in the context of the community.
https://hubleadership.podbean.com/e/winter-is-coming-a-housing-justice-podcast-ep-24-tiny-homes-relationships-restorative-justice-with-jay-straus/?token=722b66c34ad02b767b2191f4f4a13217

As season 3 of the Winter is Coming: A Housing Justice Podcast continues we sit down with Tony D'Amato Stortz, Author of "A Home of their Own: A Guide to Building a Tiny Homes Community", and principal founder of Better Street, whose team has launched 143 Tiny Homes in the past year. Tony shares his candid thoughts on how empathy and helping people can meet innovation not just in the tiny home communities he's helped to form, but in how we reach residents who are resistant to shelters and emergency housing in their neighbourhoods. We also chat about how to improve the national conversation heading into a double election year in Ontario.

https://hubleadership.podbean.com/e/winter-is-coming-a-housing-justice-podcast-ep-21-innovating-how-we-help-people-with-tony-damato-stortz/?token=3860b9908271c7cbd0c620f36c6f29f9