Category: Op-eds and Policy Research
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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-income Canadians are hit the hardest by rising inflation rates
Ronald D. Kneebone and Margarita Wilkins from the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy released a report in July on the…
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Right to buy put homes in the hands of landlords. Rehashing it will do the same
By Bob Kerslake The Guardian June 9, 2022 Among the slew of “red meat” policies that are now being put forward to…
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A co-operative approach can ease Canada’s housing crisis
By Tim Ross In the National Observer Much public conversation is rightly focused on housing supply and how building more homes will…
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Here’s how rocketing rents and unaffordable house prices can be fixed
We have the chance to guarantee the human right to housing – rather than a real-life game of Monopoly. We must take…
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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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The big idea: could fixing housing fix everything else, too?
By Sam Bowman The Guardian January 17, 2022 If you could wave a magic wand and fix one modern ill, what would…
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Rapid Housing Initiative gives funding to 3 new housing projects in Winnipeg
On January 11, 2022 The Honourable Ahmed Hussen, Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion, alongside the Honourable Rochelle Squires, Manitoba’s Minister…
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End Homelessness Winnipeg releases 2021 Interim Street Census Community Report
End Homelessness Winnipeg releases the 2021 Interim Street Census Community Report offering a limited, time-specific glimpse of homelessness in Winnipeg with the…
