General News of the Coalition – Meetings, Advance Notices, Upcoming Events, etc
The Right to Housing Coalition is taking part in a national day of action to call on the Government of Canada to invest in social housing across the country. The Coalition will also be inviting the Premier of Manitoba and the Mayor of Winnipeg to endorse the Social Housing & Human Rights call to action to help secure more […]
Right to Housing is happy to share that Winnipeg City Council is supporting the creation of 231 units of social housing. These units will be spread out across seven housing projects owned by non-profit housing providers. Low-income tenants living in these units will pay rents that are no more than 30% of household income, or equivalent […]
The National Housing Strategy is not creating new housing for the lowest-income households in Manitoba, according to new analysis published today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba in collaboration with the Right to Housing Coalition. The Impact of the National Housing Strategy for Low-Income Renters in Winnipeg and Manitoba by Dr. Shauna MacKinnon looks […]
The Province of Manitoba’s Poverty Reduction Strategy is under review and consultations are being organized. The Right to Housing Coalition has released its recommendations for actions needed in the strategy to increase social housing.
Read Kirsten Bernas’s article published in the Winnipeg Free Press about reliance on rent benefits in the private rental market to assist low income renters and the need to expand and maintain the supply of publicly-owned housing. Kirsten is the chair of the Coalition’s Provincial Working Group.
Despite years of advocacy by Manitoba’s Right to Housing Coalition urging government to increase the supply of social housing, politicians seem convinced that the social housing crisis is an unsolvable problem that can only be tinkered with using private-sector participation, whether it be to construct new units or maintain and operate existing units. But the […]
By Shauna MacKinnon Winnipeg Free Press January 29, 2024 The NDP government recently announced its plans to scale back the previous government’s promise to expand social housing by adding 700 units this fiscal year. Instead, it will focus on providing up to 250 rental units with supports, for people who are currently unhoused. It is […]
Step 1. Here are the addresses for all NDP MLAs. Paste them into the To: field of your email. amanda.lathlin@yourmanitoba.ca; billie.cross@yourmanitoba.ca; david.pankratz@yourmanitoba.ca; diljeet.brar@yourmanitoba.ca; eric.redhead@yourmanitoba.ca; jd.devgan@yourmanitoba.ca; jelynn.delacruz@yourmanitoba.ca; jennifer.chen@yourmanitoba.ca; jim.maloway@yourmanitoba.ca; logan.oxenham@yourmanitoba.ca; mark.wasyliw@yourmanitoba.ca; mike.moroz@yourmanitoba.ca; mike.moyes@yourmanitoba.ca; minaet@manitoba.ca; minagr@manitoba.ca; minecc@manitoba.ca; mineditnr@manitoba.ca; mineecl@manitoba.ca; minfin@manitoba.ca; minfs@manitoba.ca; minhah@manitoba.ca; minhsltc@manitoba.ca; minied@manitoba.ca; minjus@manitoba.ca; minli@manitoba.ca; minmti@manitoba.ca; minscht@manitoba.ca; mintu.sandhu@yourmanitoba.ca; nellie.kennedy@yourmanitoba.ca; premier@manitoba.ca; rachelle.schott@yourmanitoba.ca; robert.loiselle@yourmanitoba.ca; speaker@leg.gov.mb.ca; tyler.blashko@yourmanitoba.ca Step 2. Paste […]
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 […]
By Kristin Annable and Caroline Barghout CBC News December 30, 2023 Lorry Mulvaney’s father planted an ash tree when their family moved into Manitoba’s first public housing in 1963. While 60 years later, much has changed in the area around Gilbert Park in northwest Winnipeg — more development, more units, more people — the tree […]