The Right to Housing Coalition along with Make Poverty History Manitoba has submitted two funding requests for the upcoming 2015 provincial budget. The requests are outlined in a background paper and letter written in December to Premier Selinger. Backgrounder Letter to Premier
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba Office has released a report documenting the housing experiences of Aboriginal people moving to Winnipeg. Winnipeg is home to Canada’s largest Aboriginal population. Aboriginal people, however, are among the most likely to experience homelessness and are also over-represented in housing that is unaffordable, overcrowded or in poor […]
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba Office (CCPA) has released a report “A Terrific Loss: The Expiring Social Housing Operating Agreements in Manitoba” written by Sarah Cooper, formerly with CCPA and now a doctoral student in Urban Planning and Policy at the University of Illinois-Chicago. The report outlines the challenges and implications in Manitoba […]
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has released a paper on “How affordable is affordable housing?” The paper describes current affordable housing challenges in Manitoba particularly in the rental market. Click here to see the November 2014 paper.
National Housing Day 2014 is undoubtedly the largest and most unified marking of National Housing Day that we have ever experienced in Canada. From Montreal to Whitehorse, groups and coalitions are taking a variety of actions. We are all protesting how the expiring operating grants that make our social housing accessible to people of low […]
The State of Homelessness in Canada 2014 is Homeless Hub Paper #5 written by Stephen Gaetz, Tanya Gulliver & Tim Richter. The Homeless Hub (www.homelesshub.ca) is a web-based research library and resource centre, supported by the Canadian Homelessness Research Network. The Homeless Hub Paper Series is a Canadian Observatory on Homelessness initiative to highlight the work of […]
The Canadian Housing and Renewal Association (CHRA) depicts Canada’s core housing need in a new infographic based on CMHC’s release “The Geography of Core Housing Need in 2011.” CMHC Research Highlight – released October 2014. This Research Highlight examines housing conditions and core housing need in 2011 based on data from the 2011 National Household Survey. […]
The Right to Housing Coalition wants the lack of affordable housing in Winnipeg to be an important issue in the upcoming civic election. We need the next Mayor and Council of our city to understand that housing is city business and to provide leadership to increase the city’s involvement in affordable housing initiatives. The Coalition’s […]
The Report ushers in a new plan for the revitalization of social housing in Canada, in the wake of expiring federal funding through operating agreements. The Report proposes to do things differently – to build an efficient, self-sustaining and innovative system of social housing in Canada. Three broad recommendations are articulated; two new investment streams, […]