In this discussion paper, WinnipegREALTORS® outlines the issues and challenges facing the rental market in Winnipeg and Manitoba. The discussion paper explores potential solutions of mutual benefit to tenants, landlords, investors and communities. Link: http://www.winnipegrealestatenews.com/Resources/DocumentList/2
There have been several articles in your newspaper recently reporting on the surge of immigrants to Manitoba. While this is welcome news to a province that struggles to increase its population, it raises the question, “Where are they all going to live?” As the politicians congratulate each other for their provincial nominee program, which brought […]
Published by Marion Steele and Peter Tomlinson of The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, this is a revised version of a discussion paper commissioned for the Experts’ Roundtable, 26 October 2009, on tax and regulatory policies to increase the supply of affordable rental housing, co-sponsored by the University of Calgary’s School of Public […]
Welleseley Institute report demonstrates the link between the improvement of precarious housing and better population health (which leads to reduced health inequities). It also provides a strong vision for a national housing plan for rectifying the problem of precarious housing. The report is presented in two parts: Part I reviews precarious housing in the national […]
The Coalition advocates that the City of Winnipeg play a stronger role to increase the supply of affordable rental housing. In a March 2010 position paper presented to the Winnipeg Housing Steering Committee (a committee of City Council), Right to Housing advocated for an expanded role for the City of Winnipeg through implementation of an […]
This Conference Board of Canada report explores affordable housing in Canada and makes the case for an expanded supply. It also highlights model initiatives and provides practical tools for planners, developers, and others. Link: http://www.conferenceboard.ca/e-library/abstract.aspx?did=3530
The Coalition congratulates Greg Selinger on becoming Premier and acknowledges his commitment to increase rent-geared-to-income units by 300 units in Manitoba each year for five years that he made during his campaign to be leader of the NDP. See letter October 26, 2009 Letter to Premier
The Coalition sent a letter to The Honourable James Flaherty on January 13, 2009 urging the Government of Canada to prioritize investment in non-profit social housing development in the 2009 federal budget. Jan 2009 Flaherty letter
In his article in Saturday’s Free Press, (December 13, 2008), Dan Klymchuk tries to make a case for the Manitoba Government selling off 13,100 units of public housing. This would not solve the problem; indeed it would only make a critical situation immeasurably worse. And this is certainly not an experiment we want to try […]