Category: Op-eds and Policy Research
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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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Right to Housing Coalition speaks out about proposed Portage Place redevelopment
The Right to Coalition has sent a letter to The Honourable Ahmed Husssen, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development for the…
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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…
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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…
