General News of the Coalition – Meetings, Advance Notices, Upcoming Events, etc
June 17, 2013 Premier Greg Selinger Manitoba Legislative Buildings 450 Broadway Ave. Winnipeg, Manitoba Dear Premier Selinger: On behalf of the Right to Housing Coalition, I am sending our response to your government’s recent budget. First, may we say again that we appreciate that your government is on schedule to meet your 2009 commitment of […]
Manitoba just announced several very good housing related measures in its 2013 budget, including a total of 1000 new rental units, half RGI and half “affordable”. It also announced an 8% rebate on the capital costs of new rental construction or conversion where at least 10% of the suites met “affordability” guidelines. Also included was some […]
Right to Housing Coalition is a non-profit, volunteer advocacy coalition of 47 supporting organizations. We have an active membership of over 40 individuals and an email circulation list of 160. Although R2H is based in Winnipeg, we maintain contact with housing advocates in Brandon, Thompson and Selkirk. I appreciate this opportunity to report on the […]
Each year, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba publishes its State of the Inner City Report. This year’s report, Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges, speaks to concerns raised by community-based organizations – such as the Right to Housing Coalition – the impact that some Government decisions (and indecisions) can have on vulnerable people. The […]
On May 25, the Right to Housing Coalition co-hosted a day of action to celebrate social housing in Manitoba and across the country. The event was held in part of a Canada-wide Defend Our Social Housing weekend of action, organized in conjunction with the Red Tent Campaign. The event was well attended by community members […]
There have been several articles in your newspaper recently reporting on the surge of immigrants to Manitoba. While this is welcome news to a province that struggles to increase its population, it raises the question, “Where are they all going to live?” As the politicians congratulate each other for their provincial nominee program, which brought […]
In his article in Saturday’s Free Press, (December 13, 2008), Dan Klymchuk tries to make a case for the Manitoba Government selling off 13,100 units of public housing. This would not solve the problem; indeed it would only make a critical situation immeasurably worse. And this is certainly not an experiment we want to try […]