Category: Campaign Update
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R2H response to recent increase to EIA rates
The Right to Housing Coalition along with Make Poverty History is responding to the recent announcement of an increase to the Basic…
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Bold thinking created affordable housing
By Brent Bellamy June 13, 2022 Winnipeg Free Press IN the late 1940s, Canada’s post-war economy was booming, but corresponding global supplychain…
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Priced out: West Broadway tenants up in arms over prohibitive rent increase
By Ben Waldman Winnipeg Free Press June 13, 2022 Shortly after the hallways at a West Broadway apartment building got laminate flooring…
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Home squalid home: Tenants enduring filthy, bug-infested and unsafe conditions in a dilapidated Manitoba Housing high-rise complex in St. Boniface say repeated complaints to management have mostly been ignored
Danielle Da Silva Winnipeg Free Press May 26, 2022 Without hesitation and with the speed of a seasoned marksman, Randall Wolak took…
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Budget leaves lower-income renters behind: critics
By Danielle Da Silva, Winnipeg Free Press, April 14, 2022 A new Manitoba tax credit targeting renters and low-income earners is being…
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Housing strategy must focus on affordability
Kirsten Bernas and Codi Guenther Published in the Winnipeg Free Press, April 6, 2022 A NEW report issued by the National Housing…
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The big idea: could fixing housing fix everything else, too?
By Sam Bowman The Guardian January 17, 2022 If you could wave a magic wand and fix one modern ill, what would…
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Ottawa touts rapid-housing program as MPs delve anew into probe of home prices
By Jordan Press Canadian Press January 21, 2022 The federal government finished the week by touting the popularity of a program designed…
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City of Winnipeg releases draft Poverty Reduction Strategy
The City of Winnipeg has released its draft Poverty Reduction Strategy that will be considered by the Executive Policy Committee on November…
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Winnipeg’s affordable housing effort understaffed/The Star
Read article by Sean Ledwich, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter for The Leaf regarding the housing staff shortage at the City of Winnipeg…
