Waterloo regional councillors are directing staff to develop a funding and advocacy strategy based on a plan that aims to end chronic homelessness by 2030.
Regional councillors were presented with the final report on how Waterloo region plans to end and prevent chronic homelessness. A number of delegates spoke at Tuesday's Community and Health Services Committee.
The municipality of Chatham-Kent has approved a project that will see 50 tiny cabins built to provide transitional housing for people who are homeless.
Fifty unhoused people were selected to live in the units on a former parking lot in Peterborough, Ont. A city staff report says the program has seen "early successes."