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Download arnie briggs2/14/2024 ^ "A tiny housing project hopes to be a big solution to the affordable housing problem in Toronto".Dying for a Home: Homeless Activists Speak Out. ^ a b Bonnie Briggs, Poems from Street Level, About the Author, 1998."Remembering Toronto housing activist Bonnie Briggs". "Toronto activist Bonnie Briggs remembered as advocate for housing, creator of Homeless Memorial". "Illegal tenants hope new law to give them protection rights". On August 4th 2017 Briggs died in her home in Parkdale. She was married to husband Kerry Briggs who she met at a dance in Kleinburg in 1982. By 2021, the memorial, located at the Church of the Holy Trinity, had over 1,200 names of people who died while experiencing homelessness in Toronto. She created the Toronto Homeless Memorial in 1997, having started working on the project in 1996. As an activist for affordable housing, Briggs attended meetings, protests, and took part in activities organized by the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, the ODSP Action Coalition, the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee, Parkdale NDP, United Tenants of Ontario, and ACORN. Briggs worked as an ambassador for Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre where she led their Tiny Houses Project to provide affordable housing to homeless people. She was featured in the book Dying For a Home by Cathy Crowe.
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