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2023-10-17 A Better Tent City gets land use on Ardelt Avenue extended to May 2025

2022-02-23 Region of Waterloo: Regional Council provides transitional funding to A Better Tent City

2022-02-18 The Hamilton Spectator: Hamilton tiny cabins group looking past Sir John A Macdonald school site

2022-02-14 CTV News Kitchener: Kitchener's tiny home project to address homelessness an 'inspiration' for other cities

2022-02-12 The Hamilton Spectator: Let’s give Hamilton Alliance for Tiny Shelters a chance to help the city’s homeless community

2022-02-08 CTV News Kitchener: A Better Tent City receives $155K in regional funding to cover power costs

2022-02-08 The Record: A Better Tent City gets $155K for hydro hookup, heating costs

2022-02-05 The Record: A Better Tent City inspiring similar housing solutions in other cities

2022-02-06 CBC: A Better Tent City asks for $155K from region to cover costs of extending power to new location

2022-02-03 CBC: 'A more positive path forward': How tiny shelters could combat homelessness in Hamilton

2022-02-01 The Hamilton Spectator: Tiny shelters: Alliance wants to build ‘dignified’ community for homeless on downtown Hamilton site

2022-02-01 CHCH Tiny homes for homeless community could be coming to Hamilton

2022-01-17 The Record: Residents feel ‘more like a person, less like a problem

2022-01-17 The Record: A Better Tent City is 2021 Barnraiser

2021-12-21 CUPE: Region of Waterloo workers donating $2500 to A Better Tent City

2021-12-07 The Hamilton Spectator: Hamilton can learn from Kitchener on building ‘A Better Tent City’

2012-12-05 The Record: A Better Tent City getting even better

2021-11-29 CTV News Kitchener 'This is not who we are': Regional council addresses public outcry over removal of homeless encampment

2021-11-01 Toronto Star: How ‘A Better Tent City’ is trying a new way to tackle homelessness in Kitchener

2021-10-27 Observer: A Better Tent City relocates to new site in Kitchener

2021-08-30 The Record: Residents of A Better Tent City speak up

2021-08-27 The Record: A Better Tent City belongs in Waterloo Region

2021-07-28 Tiny home research gets $15K funding boost from Cambridge

2021-06-19 CTV News Kitchener: Neighbours of A Better Tent City's temporary home respond to relocation

2021-06-18 The Record: A Better Tent City deserves a permanent home in Waterloo Region

2021-06-04 The Record: A place for the homeless in Kitchener needs its own home

2021-06-02 The Record: A Better Tent City no closer to a new home

2021-06-02 CBC: 'Mixed reception' from residents as A Better Tent City asks to move from Kitchener to Breslau

2021-05-28 CTV News Kitchener: A Better Tent City in Kitchener aiming to move to Woolwich Township

2021-04-27 CTV News Kitchener: 'It's home': Residents of A Better Tent City looking for new location after Lot42 sale

2021-03-27 CTV News Kitchener: Volunteers look to build tiny home community in Woodstock

2021-03-22 CTV News Kitchener: Event space pivots in pandemic to help homeless population

2021-03-20 CBC: Ron Doyle, landlord behind Kitchener's Better Tent City, did what 'nobody else was doing'

See our page on Civic Hub Waterloo Region for transcripts from radio interviews, a living repot from 2021, recognition as one of Canada’s Top 100 Recovery Projects by the Future of Good, and more!