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  Right to Housing’s Day of Action on November 22 started at 8:00 A.M. at the LITE Wild Blueberry Pancake Breakfast.  This is a hugely popular annual affair that brings Winnipeg’s historic Northend together with left leaning and socially conscious groups from political and non-profit sectors.  We engaged the services of the Raging Grannies who […]

On November 22 at 11:00 a.m. the Right to Housing Coalition will be holding a press conference to highlight the growing problem created by the expiring operating grants that have been helping to pay the subsidies for social housing.  The press conference will be held at Willow Park East Housing Co-op Ltd., a housing co-op […]

Honourable Peter Bjornson has been appointed Minister of Housing and Community Development by Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger in the cabinet shuffle on October 18, 2013.      Mr. Bjornson was elected in 2003 as MLA for Gimli and has been the Minister of Entrepreneurship, Training and Trade since November 2009.      

Darrell Jones, CEO of Manitoba Housing announced this morning that as of October 18 he is resigning from his current position.  He will be returning to Saskatchewan    I have sent him an email on behalf of R2H, expressing our sadness at this news and thanking him for the leadership and openness that he has shown […]

At the Manitoba Legislative Committee hearings held on Tuesday evening, October 15, on Bill 7, to amend the City of Winnipeg Charter to permit inclusionary zoning, Right to Housing and The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives were among the groups presenting in favour of the bill.  Right to Housing’s presentation applauded the bill but recognized […]

Due to several vacant seats at the table, the regular September meeting of Right to Housing Coalition has been cancelled.  The next regular monthly meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 15 at 2:00 p.m. at Crossways In Common, Broadway and Furby.

At the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg Annual General Meeting on June 13,  guest speaker James Wilson, Manitoba Treaty Commissioner was asked by Right to Housing Coordinator Clark Brownlee about plans for Kapyong should the Bands win the court battles with the Federal Government.  Wilson had been emphasizing that Urban Aboriginal Economic Zones are being […]

A news item in the Globe and Mail predicts that major cities in Canada are about to experience a major boom in purpose built rental housing, the first such boom in several decades.  The article quotes several developers who are tired of buying expensive older apartment buildings that require major renovations and maintenance to be […]