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Home squalid home: Tenants enduring filthy, bug-infested and unsafe conditions in a dilapidated Manitoba Housing high-rise complex in St. Boniface say repeated complaints to management have mostly been ignored

Danielle Da Silva Winnipeg Free Press May 26, 2022 Without hesitation and with the speed of a seasoned marksman, Randall Wolak took aim as a roach scuttled down the elevator door jamb at the Manitoba Housing high-rise where he has lived for nearly a decade. The 68 year old, who is on a wait list […]

Budget leaves lower-income renters behind: critics

By Danielle Da Silva, Winnipeg Free Press, April 14, 2022 A new Manitoba tax credit targeting renters and low-income earners is being met with skepticism by advocates who argue the Progressive Conservative budget does not go far enough to tackle poverty. Read more here

Housing strategy must focus on affordability

Kirsten Bernas and Codi Guenther Published in the Winnipeg Free Press, April 6, 2022 A NEW report issued by the National Housing Council reveals that most of the investments in new rental housing under the federal government’s much anticipated National Housing Strategy are not going toward those with the greatest need for public housing. In […]

The big idea: could fixing housing fix everything else, too?

By Sam Bowman The Guardian January 17, 2022 If you could wave a magic wand and fix one modern ill, what would it be? Inequality? Pollution? Intergenerational unfairness? The decline of the high street? Suburban ennui? What if you didn’t have to pick, because there was one social problem that lay at the root of […]

Ottawa touts rapid-housing program as MPs delve anew into probe of home prices

By Jordan Press Canadian Press January 21, 2022 The federal government finished the week by touting the popularity of a program designed to quickly build or buy affordable housing for the nation’s most vulnerable – one piece of a larger home-price puzzle. The program first launched at the start of the pandemic when cities were […]

Canada’s housing strategy having ‘limited’ impact on housing need, PBO says

CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS OTTAWA THE CANADIAN PRESS PUBLISHED AUGUST 10, 2021 The federal government has spent less than half of the funding earmarked for a pair of flagship housing programs as the need for affordable homes grows along with a yawning “affordability gap,” says Canada’s budget watchdog. Read more here.

Profit mongers should have no home in Canada’s housing market

LEILANI FARHA AND JULIETA PERUCCA CONTRIBUTED TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL June 16 Core Development Group Ltd. announced this week that it intends to spend $1-billion over the next five years to purchase thousands of single-family homes across Ontario, Quebec, Atlantic Canada and British Columbia and offer them as rentals. The Toronto-based company says it […]

Co-op Housing Federation calls for new non-market housing

At its Annual Meeting on June 13, 2021, the Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada adopted two resolutions addressing national housing policy. The first called on the federal government to Develop a new non-market housing construction and acquisition program as part of the National Housing Strategy (NHS) in order to develop many new affordable co-op homes. […]

Trudeau promises cities help to lower high cost of housing

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised municipal leaders federal backing and resources toward efforts to address the high cost of housing that he says is creating a crisis for young and middle-class families. Read more here.

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