Category: Op-eds and Policy Research
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Province must focus its homelessness strategy
By Kirsten Bernas and Shauna MacKinnon This article was first published by the Winnipeg Free Press on Thursday October 20, 2022. The…
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Lions Place Housing Crisis: What the Manitoba Government can and must do
Since learning on July 26, 2022 that their home would soon be listed on the private market, the residents at Lions Place…
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R2H speaks out about potential sale of Lions Place
Read op ed in Winnipeg Free Press by Gerald Brown, a resident at Lions Place and chairperson of the Lions Place Residents…
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Low-cost rental housing scarce in Winnipeg
There continues to be a severe shortage of low-cost rental supply in Winnipeg, at the same time rental vacancies are generally on…
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Housing strategy must focus on affordability
Kirsten Bernas and Codi Guenther Published in the Winnipeg Free Press, April 6, 2022 A NEW report issued by the National Housing…
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Launch of report on how Canadian cities are creating affordable rental housing
This research turned to ten other Canadian cities to ask how municipal housing departments supported the creation of affordable rental housing, and…
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CCPA Manitoba releases report “KPMG Sends Manitoba Housing Down a Dead End”
The Manitoba Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) has released a report written by Doug Smith that looks at…
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Research Report on MB’s Rent Assist program
Authors Sarah Cooper, Jesse Hajer, and Shayna Plout have written a research report on Rent Assist in Manitoba “Assisting Renters – Manitoba’s…
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Housing Stability Crucial During COVID-19 Crisis
In a recent article in the Winnipeg Free Press, Sarah Cooper and Shauna MacKinnon, both members of the Right to Housing Coalition,…
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Taking Stock of Manitoba’s Social Housing Plan
In 2017 the federal government announced a 10-year, $40 billion National Housing Strategy (NHS) to “help reduce homelessness and improve the availability…
