Two-thousand public rental suites vacant due to low repair budget

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By Danielle Da Silva

Winnipeg Free Press

January 4, 2024

More than 2,000 publicly owned, subsidized rental units across Manitoba are unoccupied amid a housing and homelessness crisis, with advocates blaming measly repair budgets for the vacancies.

As many as 1,090 Winnipeg-area apartments and units owned by Manitoba Housing were vacant as of the end of December, the provincial government said.

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