Category: Op-eds and Policy Research
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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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Right to Housing recommendations for upcoming City Budget
Yutaka Dirks, Chair of the City Working Group of the Right to Housing Coalition; has written to Mayor Gillingham and the current…
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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…
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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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R2H response to recent increase to EIA rates
The Right to Housing Coalition along with Make Poverty History is responding to the recent announcement of an increase to the Basic…
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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…
