Category: Op-eds and Policy Research
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The National Housing Accord: A Multi-Sector Approach to Ending Canada’s Rental Housing Crisis
As Canada’s housing crisis worsens, a group of housing sector organizations – non-profit and for-profit housing providers, developers and investors – have…
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$296M on Manitoba Housing upgrades since 2016 isn’t enough: Right to Housing Coalition
Kirsten Bernas, Chair of the Coalition’s Provincial Working Group says provincial government plans to spend $67 million to support Manitoba Housing repair…
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Government dragging feet on homelessness
By: Kirsten Bernas and Shauna MacKinnon From Winnipeg Free Press: Saturday, Mar. 11, 2023 THE Manitoba government released its Homelessness Strategy on…
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Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada Brief on the 2023 Federal Budget
The Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada’s 2023 Federal Budget submission makes four key recommendations: Launch the Co-operative Housing Development Program. Announced in…
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2023 Provincial Budget Submission of the Manitoba Non-Profit Housing Association
Throughout 2022, the Government of Manitoba held multi-sectoral consultations on its commitments to strategically reduce and end homelessness and advance a strategy…
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Financialization of housing must be confronted
by Tom Simms Winnipeg Free Press January 12, 2023 Government housing policy preferences are based on values, the most fundamental being the…
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The Co-op Housing Advantage
Today, a new report comparing housing charges (rents) in co-op housing with rents in similar private market rental buildings shows that rent…
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Winnipeg Street Census 2022
Findings from the 2022 Winnipeg Street Census have been released. Click here
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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…
