Category: Campaign Update
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Right to Housing op-ed on rent benefits
Read Kirsten Bernas’s article published in the Winnipeg Free Press about reliance on rent benefits in the private rental market to assist…
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Two-thousand public rental suites vacant due to low repair budget
By Danielle Da Silva Winnipeg Free Press January 4, 2024 More than 2,000 publicly owned, subsidized rental units across Manitoba are unoccupied…
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Public housing’s broken promise
By Kristin Annable and Caroline Barghout CBC News December 30, 2023 Lorry Mulvaney’s father planted an ash tree when their family moved…
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Province suspends sale of 19 public housing properties
Housing Minister Bernadette Smith has announced that 19 Manitoba Housing properties with 35 units that were recommended to be sold under the…
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Housing in Ruins – CBC investigation on state of public housing in Manitoba
A CBC investigation has found that Manitoba’s public housing system is in a state of neglect with thousands of units sitting vacant…
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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Fast Facts on Social Housing for Seniors
Read CCPA Manitoba Office Fast Facts on the state of housing for seniors written by Lynne Fernandez and Erika Wiebe, co-chairs of…
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The National Housing Accord: A Multi-Sector Approach to Ending Canada’s Rental Housing Crisis
As Canada’s housing crisis worsens, a group of housing sector organizations – non-profit and for-profit housing providers, developers and investors – have…
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$296M on Manitoba Housing upgrades since 2016 isn’t enough: Right to Housing Coalition
Kirsten Bernas, Chair of the Coalition’s Provincial Working Group says provincial government plans to spend $67 million to support Manitoba Housing repair…
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Government dragging feet on homelessness
By: Kirsten Bernas and Shauna MacKinnon From Winnipeg Free Press: Saturday, Mar. 11, 2023 THE Manitoba government released its Homelessness Strategy on…
