{"id":56518,"date":"2021-08-13T16:43:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T20:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=56518"},"modified":"2021-08-13T16:43:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T20:43:11","slug":"supporting-youth-through-the-housing-crisis-in-kw-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/supporting-youth-through-the-housing-crisis-in-kw-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporting Youth through the housing crisis in KW &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Host: Sherice Alishaw<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The housing crisis leads to more barriers for the marginalized individuals within our community. Residents are facing an affordable housing crisis in Waterloo region. The low income housing waitlist is almost 6 years until you are able to be offered a unit. Marginalized members of this community are struggling to find and maintain stable housing in this region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On this episode of CKMS News, we interview Sandy Dietrich-Bell, CEO of OneROOF a youth shelter in Kitchener. We discuss the barriers that marginalized members of our community face while trying to obtain stable housing as well as how the community can come together for a solution to this housing crisis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">--<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This program is a part of the \u201cLocal Journalism Initiative\u201d grant project and is funded by the Community Radio Fund of Canada, the Government of Canada and the CKMS Newsroom.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Check out the archived versions of this program and other episodes on radiowaterloo.ca\/news, and other stories commissioned under the Local Journalism Initiative at canada-info.ca<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can follow us on twitter @radiowaterloo. If you want to get in touch with comments, or ideas about stories to cover, email us at <\/span><\/i><a href=\"mailto:news@radiowaterloo.ca\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">news@radiowaterloo.ca<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Host: Sherice Alishaw The housing crisis leads to more barriers for the marginalized individuals within our community. Residents are facing an affordable housing crisis in Waterloo region. The low income housing waitlist is almost 6 years until you are able to be offered a unit. Marginalized members of this community are struggling to find and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":56531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[579,370,571,2335,8786,487],"radio":[253],"origine":[267,271,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56518"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=56518"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=56518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}