R2H recommendations for 2023 City Budget
The Chair of the City Working Group of the Right to Housing Coalition has written the Mayor and Executive Policy Committee members regarding recommendations for the 2023 Budget. Budget 2023 Letter
Municipal Positions
Positions coming from the Municipal Working Group
Right to Housing recommendations for upcoming City Budget
Yutaka Dirks, Chair of the City Working Group of the Right to Housing Coalition; has written to Mayor Gillingham and the current Council members regarding the investment needed by the City in its upcoming budget to address the housing and homelessness crisis. Budget Letter
R2H Call to Action for Winnipeg City Election Candidates
The Right to Housing Coalition has released its call to action for municipal election candidates. This is a list of actions that City Council must take to begin to address the affordable housing crisis in Winnipeg. Our coalition wants all candidates to prioritize the creation of truly affordable housing and understand the tools our city […]
Right to Housing Coalition speaks out about proposed Portage Place redevelopment
The Right to Coalition has sent a letter to The Honourable Ahmed Husssen, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development for the Government of Canada outlining the Coalition’s concerns re federal support for the proposed Starlight Investments redevelopment project. The Coalition is asking all levels of government to re-think support for this project in light […]
Launch of report on how Canadian cities are creating affordable rental housing
This research turned to ten other Canadian cities to ask how municipal housing departments supported the creation of affordable rental housing, and how much staff capacity was dedicated to that effort. It was surprising to find that every surveyed city (except Winnipeg) had an affordable housing strategy, and that planning documents consistently cited the creation […]
R2H speaks out during civic election
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 […]
R2H Responds to City’s Housing Implementation Plan
Our Coalition presented its brief to the Winnipeg Housing Steering Committee Meeting on April 14th about the proposed Housing Implementation Plan for the City. The Steering Committee approved that the Implementation Plan be sent to the Executive Policy Committee, the next step in the approval process. Links to the Implementation Plan and the Coalition’s brief […]
Right to Housing Brief – July 2012
In 2012 the Coalition welcomed the City’s decision to revise the mandate of the Winnipeg Housing Steering Committee to work with the Federal and Provincial governments and representatives of the private and nonprofit sectors, to develop an affordable housing strategy for Winnipeg. The Coalition repeated its message to the City in a brief in July […]
CREATING RENTAL HOUSING – A ROLE FOR THE CITY OF WINNIPEG
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 […]