Category: Op-eds and Policy Research
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CCPA Report “Putting Home at the Heart of Refugee Resettlement”
The culmination of a 5-year study based on interviews with recently arrived former refugees finds that securing good housing is a key…
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Co-op Housing Federation calls for new non-market housing
At its Annual Meeting on June 13, 2021, the Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada adopted two resolutions addressing national housing policy. The…
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Affordable micro suite apartment building coming to Winnipeg’s Centennial area
A partnership between the Pollard family and all three levels of government will give people experiencing homelessness an affordable housing solution in Winnipeg’s…
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CBC Opinion article by Kirsten Bernas re importance of partnerships to assist homeless people
Read Kirsten Bernas’s article regarding a recent partnership with a homeless encampment, the Beer Can and the West Central Women’s Resource Centre…
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Trudeau promises cities help to lower high cost of housing
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised municipal leaders federal backing and resources toward efforts to address the high cost of housing that…
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CANPHA Calls on Prime Minister to Announce an Urban, Rural, and Northern Indigenous Housing Strategy
In May the Canadian Alliance of Non-Profit Housing Associations (CANPHA) wrote a letter to the Prime Minister expressing their disappointment at the…
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Big federal budget does little for the homeless, disappointed advocates say
By: Dylan Robertson Winnipeg Free Press, April 21, 2021 OTTAWA — Housing advocates are giving a thumbs-down to the Trudeau government’s massive budget,…
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Province announces $5.6 million rent bank
The Manitoba government is providing $5.6 million to the Manitoba Non-Profit Housing Association (MNPHA) to deliver a rent bank program that will…
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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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Urban, Rural, and Northern Indigenous Housing
Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) released an independent analysis of the federal government’s spending to address Indigenous housing needs in urban, rural…
