The Manitoba government has endorsed a multilateral Housing Partnership Framework at a meeting of Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial ministers in Toronto on April 9, 2018. Families Minister Scott Fielding indicated that the federal framework will help support the new provincial housing strategy. Click here for news release.
The federal government through the National Housing Strategy will invest $500 million over 10 years for a new Federal Community Housing Initiative to protect affordability for tenants and stabilize the operations of some 55,000 units of federally administered community housing projects. Under phase I of the Federal Community Housing Initiative, federally administered community housing providers with long-term operating agreements […]
Read Right to Housing Coalition’s analysis of the recent Manitoba Budget. budget analysis
With this analysis, the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg and the Right to Housing Coalition examine exactly what the federal government is offering and how we in Manitoba can best capitalize on the plan. Finally-a-National-Housing-Strategy.2018.03
See opinion piece in the Winnipeg Free Press written by Kirsten Bernas and Sarah Cooper of the Right to Housing Coalition regarding current dangers to public housing in Manitoba.
Sarah Cooper is a CCPA-MB research associate and a Right to Housing member. She is currently completing her PhD in Urban Planning and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Sarah examines the risks and real dangers to Manitoba’s low-income housing including the end of operating agreements for low-income housing providers. Public Housing […]
November 22, 2017 – CHRA response to National Housing Strategy The federal government today unveiled Canada’s first ever National Housing Strategy, a historic plan which contains a series of policies and programs that puts the needs of Canada’s most vulnerable populations at its core. The Strategy aims to invest over $40 billion with the objective […]
Nov 22, 2017 – The federal government has announced the details of its ten-year national housing strategy a 10-year, $40-billion plan to help ensure that Canadians have access to housing that meets their needs and that they can afford.
Read CBC article about vacant Manitoba Housing highrise at 185 Smith Street. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-housing-downtown-winnipeg-closed-1.4097208
Kirsten Bernas, Chair of the Provincial Working Group of the Right to Housing Coalition, Research and Policy Manager at CCEDNet Manitoba and a CCPA Manitoba Research Associate provides an analysis of housing measures in the the recent 2017 Provincial Budget. Read more