The Province of Manitoba’s Poverty Reduction Strategy is under review and consultations are being organized. The Right to Housing Coalition has released its recommendations for actions needed in the strategy to increase social housing.
Read Kirsten Bernas’s article published in the Winnipeg Free Press about reliance on rent benefits in the private rental market to assist low income renters and the need to expand and maintain the supply of publicly-owned housing. Kirsten is the chair of the Coalition’s Provincial Working Group.
Housing Minister Bernadette Smith has announced that 19 Manitoba Housing properties with 35 units that were recommended to be sold under the former Progressive Conservative government, have been temporarily taken off the market. Right to Housing Coalition provincial chair Kirsten Bernas applauded the NDP government for backing down on selling the units, at least in […]
On Thursday, October 5th people across Canada called on Prime Minister Trudeau and the Canadian government to take action to solve the housing and homelessness crisis by funding social housing. In Winnipeg, people gathered outside MP Dan Vandal’s constituency office, an event organized by Right to Housing Coalition. Lindsey McBain, Coordinator of the Coalition talked […]
A CBC investigation has found that Manitoba’s public housing system is in a state of neglect with thousands of units sitting vacant and thousands more people waiting in line – 3 part series Housing in Ruins 5000 affordable units lost, 10,000 on the line as non-profits lose subsidies Province sold more social housing units to […]
Read CCPA Manitoba Office Fast Facts on the state of housing for seniors written by Lynne Fernandez and Erika Wiebe, co-chairs of the Right to Housing Seniors Working Group. The Working Group’s three demands to deal with the current housing crisis have been sent to provincial parties as part of the Coalition’s provincial election campaign.
The Right to Housing Coalition has put forward A Social Housing Action Plan for Manitoba that pulls together solutions based on decades of research and consultation. The Coalition is calling on all political parties in the 2023 provincial election to commit to implementing a social housing action plan that features the five key pillars in the plan. […]
Kirsten Bernas, Chair of the Coalition’s Provincial Working Group says provincial government plans to spend $67 million to support Manitoba Housing repair projects is a drop in the bucket compared to what’s needed. Read CBC article here. Government news release here
The Chair of the City Working Group of the Right to Housing Coalition has written the Mayor and Executive Policy Committee members regarding recommendations for the 2023 Budget. Budget 2023 Letter
