General News of the Coalition – Meetings, Advance Notices, Upcoming Events, etc
Read article by Sean Ledwich, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter for The Leaf regarding the housing staff shortage at the City of Winnipeg affecting the City’s efforts to increase affordable housing in the city.
End Homelessness Winnipeg releases the 2021 Interim Street Census Community Report offering a limited, time-specific glimpse of homelessness in Winnipeg with the goal of helping to better understand homelessness in Winnipeg.
The city of renters has spoken decisively in a referendum that could have a huge impact not just in Germany’s capital but across Europe. Read the story here.
CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS OTTAWA THE CANADIAN PRESS PUBLISHED AUGUST 10, 2021 The federal government has spent less than half of the funding earmarked for a pair of flagship housing programs as the need for affordable homes grows along with a yawning “affordability gap,” says Canada’s budget watchdog. Read more here.
The culmination of a 5-year study based on interviews with recently arrived former refugees finds that securing good housing is a key part of successful settlement. However, a tight rental housing market, insufficient financial support and limited supply of public housing means many are barely making ends meet, making resettlement challenging. Putting Home at the […]
LEILANI FARHA AND JULIETA PERUCCA CONTRIBUTED TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL June 16 Core Development Group Ltd. announced this week that it intends to spend $1-billion over the next five years to purchase thousands of single-family homes across Ontario, Quebec, Atlantic Canada and British Columbia and offer them as rentals. The Toronto-based company says it […]
At its Annual Meeting on June 13, 2021, the Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada adopted two resolutions addressing national housing policy. The first called on the federal government to Develop a new non-market housing construction and acquisition program as part of the National Housing Strategy (NHS) in order to develop many new affordable co-op homes. […]
A partnership between the Pollard family and all three levels of government will give people experiencing homelessness an affordable housing solution in Winnipeg’s Centennial area. The Home First Winnipeg project will be a three-storey building at 390 Ross Ave. with 47 micro apartments (measuring 220 square feet each) for people experiencing homelessness, struggling with addictions and/or mental health issues or […]
Read Kirsten Bernas’s article regarding a recent partnership with a homeless encampment, the Beer Can and the West Central Women’s Resource Centre and the importance of “a comprehensive response with sustainable government investments and the political will to do things differently”.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised municipal leaders federal backing and resources toward efforts to address the high cost of housing that he says is creating a crisis for young and middle-class families. Read more here.