Bonnie Briggs

Bonnie Briggs (1952/1953-2017) was a Canadian affordable housing advocate and poet.

[2] She studied community work at George Brown College,[3] graduating in 1997.

[6] 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.

[8] 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.

[9] She was married to husband Kerry Briggs who she met at a dance in Kleinburg in 1982.