Category: Campaign Update
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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…
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The Inside Story of How Berlin Took On Corporate Landlords and Won
The city of renters has spoken decisively in a referendum that could have a huge impact not just in Germany’s capital but…
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Canada’s housing strategy having ‘limited’ impact on housing need, PBO says
CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS OTTAWA THE CANADIAN PRESS PUBLISHED AUGUST 10, 2021 The federal government has spent less than half of the funding earmarked…
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Profit mongers should have no home in Canada’s housing market
LEILANI FARHA AND JULIETA PERUCCA CONTRIBUTED TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL June 16 Core Development Group Ltd. announced this week that it…
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CBC Opinion article by Kirsten Bernas re importance of partnerships to assist homeless people
Read Kirsten Bernas’s article regarding a recent partnership with a homeless encampment, the Beer Can and the West Central Women’s Resource Centre…
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Housing crisis remains dire, even as Manitoba cuts thousands-long wait-list
Ian Froese CBC News · Mar 29, 2021 The Manitoba government boasted Monday of halving the wait-list of 9,000 households seeking subsidized…
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Manitoba Housing cuts wait-list
Families Minister Rochelle Squires announced at a news conference today that the Manitoba Housing wait-list for affordable housing units is now half…
