These are the sort of stories: They have accidents, they get ill, they move away.

Update: 2019-11-06

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We wish to stress the point that residents living on low income are a highly diverse population, and in a limited number of interviews, we encountered people who have post secondary education and are in precarious employment, homeowners, business-owners and low income earners, social assistance recipients and recipients of the Canada Disability Pension. We recorded the life stories thanks to the partnership with the University of Waterloo professor Brian Doucet and staff from St John Kitchen in the summer of 2019. We hope that a range of voices previously absent from the urban development planning strategies in Kitchener and Waterloo will be at the core of the affordable housing strategy planning in Waterloo Region.

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These are the sort of stories: They have accidents, they get ill, they move away.

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These are the sort of stories: They have accidents, they get ill, they move away.

Social Development Centre WR

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These are the sort of stories: They have accidents, they get ill, they move away.

Social Development Centre WR

These are the sort of stories: They have accidents, they get ill, they move away.