Category: Op-eds and Policy Research
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Main Street Project offers warm place for city’s homeless, but pandemic creates new level of agony
When the temperature drops below -30 C overnight, Sean will be safe and warm inside Main Street Project, having traded a bus…
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Displacement, Housing and Homelessness in Northern Manitoba Communities
A new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Manitoba office explores the understanding of people with lived experience of housing…
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Renting in the time of COVID-19: A report from Australia
A new report from Australia argues that without control of COVID-19 and the associated health risks, there can be no recovery for…
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Want to fix the housing crisis? Give young people the right to a low-cost home
Interesting read: Article by Sonia Sodha in The Guardian
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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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Winnipeg Housing Needs Assessment released
The Standing Policy Committee on Property and Development, Heritage and Downtown Development will receive a 236-page report by the University of Winnipeg’s…
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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…
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Manitoba’s social housing plans follow failed examples says R2H
Read Kirsten Bernas and Shauna MacKinnon’s article regarding the sale and transfer of social housing units by Manitoba Housing. Kirsten Bernas is the…
