The National Housing Strategy is not creating new housing for the lowest-income households in Manitoba, according to new analysis published today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba in collaboration with the Right to Housing Coalition. The Impact of the National Housing Strategy for Low-Income Renters in Winnipeg and Manitoba by Dr. Shauna MacKinnon looks […]
Despite years of advocacy by Manitoba’s Right to Housing Coalition urging government to increase the supply of social housing, politicians seem convinced that the social housing crisis is an unsolvable problem that can only be tinkered with using private-sector participation, whether it be to construct new units or maintain and operate existing units. But the […]
By Shauna MacKinnon Winnipeg Free Press January 29, 2024 The NDP government recently announced its plans to scale back the previous government’s promise to expand social housing by adding 700 units this fiscal year. Instead, it will focus on providing up to 250 rental units with supports, for people who are currently unhoused. It is […]
By Danielle Da Silva Winnipeg Free Press January 4, 2024 More than 2,000 publicly owned, subsidized rental units across Manitoba are unoccupied amid a housing and homelessness crisis, with advocates blaming measly repair budgets for the vacancies. As many as 1,090 Winnipeg-area apartments and units owned by Manitoba Housing were vacant as of the end […]
By Kristin Annable and Caroline Barghout CBC News December 30, 2023 Lorry Mulvaney’s father planted an ash tree when their family moved into Manitoba’s first public housing in 1963. While 60 years later, much has changed in the area around Gilbert Park in northwest Winnipeg — more development, more units, more people — the tree […]
Thursday, October 5th 12-12:30 pm MP Dan Vandal’s Constituency Office 213 St Mary’s Road Bring a sign in support of social housing! Canada is in crisis: tens of thousands of people are homeless and hundreds of thousands are struggling to afford rising rents. In Winnipeg, over 1,200 people are experiencing homelessness and almost 1 in […]
The Right to Housing coalition sent a questionnaire to political parties running in the 2023 Manitoba election asking them to commit to implementing the 5 pillars of its social housing action plan for Manitoba. Here is a summary of the responses: Green Party The Green Party said they “support all 5 of (the) action pillars […]
As Canada’s housing crisis worsens, a group of housing sector organizations – non-profit and for-profit housing providers, developers and investors – have put forward a plan to restore affordability, protect Canada’s most vulnerable, and build at least two million new affordable and market rental units by 2030. The National Housing Accord’s recommendations points provide the blueprint for […]
By: Kirsten Bernas and Shauna MacKinnon From Winnipeg Free Press: Saturday, Mar. 11, 2023 THE Manitoba government released its Homelessness Strategy on Feb. 28. The primary questions being asked by social housing advocates are: what took you so long, and what’s the long-term plan? As noted in the strategy, tackling homelessness requires multiple interventions and […]
The Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada’s 2023 Federal Budget submission makes four key recommendations: Launch the Co-operative Housing Development Program. Announced in 2022, this is the first dedicated federal program to support new co-op housing development in more than 30 years. It is time to launch this program to begin creating new co-op housing across […]
