Our efforts had an impact on Manitoba Budget 2025

Thanks to all of you who participated in Right to Housing’s provincial budget campaign!

Together we sent more than 1,000 postcards and over 10,000 emails to the Manitoba government calling for investments in social housing with supports. Many of you also came out to the rally in front of the legislative building earlier this week to demonstrate your support.  

Our collective efforts had an impact! 

Budget 2025 commits to expanding the social and affordable housing supply by 670 units. This nearly doubles the number of units this government committed to in its first budget last year.

For the last 30 years governments at all levels have underinvested in social housing and instead relied on the private housing market to meet all housing needs. This has resulted in a growing number of individuals and families who are experiencing housing insecurity and homelessness. Last year, we called on the Manitoba government to reverse this trend by adding 1,000 net new social housing units annually over the next 10 years. 

Budget 2025 makes a significant investment in social and affordable housing and brings the total commitment after two years to 1,020 units. While this government is on the right path, we need to see even bolder investments in future budgets specifically around expanding social housing to prevent us from falling further behind. We must advocate to ensure all of these 1,020 units are truly affordable to low-income renters with rents set at less than 30% of household income

We look forward to building our movement over the coming year and working with all of our supporters to demonstrate an even stronger collective voice calling for government action to address housing insecurity and homelessness.

We will spend the next few days taking a deeper dive into the budget documents. Stay tuned for a more detailed update on how Budget 2025 stacks up to the priorities the Right to Housing Coalition brought forward.

Become a Supporter of the Right to Housing Coalition – Individuals and organizations can become a Supporter of the Right to Housing Coalition by filling out this form so we can demonstrate the strength behind our coalition.