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Stoking the Fire to Make Change: Supporting Policy Advocacy by Community-based Organizations and the Communities They Serve in Winnipeg
February 24, 2025 | Authored by: Sarah Cooper, Yutaka Dirks
This study examines how community based organizations in Winnipeg support community and grassroots policy advocacy to address the needs of their participants. Results from a survey and interviews with staff working at CBOs show that Winnipeg’s non-prof …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building, Social Inclusion
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From repairs to rent hikes: Tenant perspectives on above-guideline rent increases in West Broadway
February 12, 2025 | Authored by: Amanda Emms, Sarah Cooper, Indira Cowkur
Feeling like the system is rigged against them was a common theme for the tenants interviewed in this Manitoba Research Alliance study focused on above-guideline rent increases (AGIs) in West Broadway. In a neighbourhood of 93 percent renters, these te …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Featured, Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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Mapping Colonial Harms: Social Emergencies in Northern Manitoba First Nations
December 2, 2024 | Authored by: Jonathan Meikle, Elizabeth Comack
Social emergencies relating to deaths caused by suicide, violence, drug misuse/poisoning, community fires, and/or health-care services have been declared in northern First Nations in Manitoba and, in some communities, multiple times. While the definiti …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Justice, Safety and Security
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Examining the Collective Impact Model in Winnipeg’s Non-Profit Homeless-Serving Sector
November 21, 2024 | Authored by: Erica Charron
The seeds of this study were sowed by a group of executive directors from community-based organizations (CBOs), both Indigenous and non-Indigenous agencies, in Winnipeg’s inner city who raised concerns about the systemic barriers impeding their work to …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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Minosin Kikiwa – “A Good Home”: Indigenous Older Adults in Winnipeg
October 29, 2024 | Authored by: Indigenous Seniors Research Committee
A growing segment of Indigenous populations in Canada are over 55. In urban areas like Winnipeg, this includes many long-time city residents. The later life situations of Indigenous older adults, though by no means identical, can differ in important wa …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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Supporting Community-Led Development in Manitoba: Policy Alternatives for Inclusive and Participatory Community Renewal
October 22, 2024 | Authored by: Jesse Hajer, Michael Barkman, Holly Scotland
Despite the current challenges facing communities and research supporting the benefits of community-led development (CLD), Manitoba hasn’t had a functioning, comprehensive CLD strategy or dedicated funding to support community development organizations …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Community Economic Development
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Understanding Manitoba’s Social Housing Transformation
October 21, 2024 | Authored by: Olusewa Olanubi, Christina Maes-Nino
This report documents the process of Manitoba Housing and Renewal Corporation’s (hereafter called MHRC) devolution of public housing that took place from 2016–2021. In 2019, the Government of Manitoba announced the province would start devolving respon …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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Impact of the National Housing Strategy for Low-Income Renters in Winnipeg and Manitoba
October 10, 2024 | Authored by: Shauna MacKinnon
In 2017, the Government of Canada launched its 10-year National Housing Strategy (NHS): A Place to Call Home. The strategy “sets out a long-term vision for housing and focuses on improving housing outcomes for those in greatest need.” Central to the NH …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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Austerity in the Department of Economic Development, Investment and Trade, and in the Department of Agriculture
October 4, 2024 | Authored by: Fletcher Barager
This chapter examines the effect of the austerity policies implemented by the Manitoba provincial government on work and workers in the province’s Department of Agriculture and Department of Economic Development, Investment and Trade (EDIT). The releva …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Community Economic Development
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Something Needs to Change: Austerity in Manitoba Transportation and Infrastructure
October 4, 2024 | Authored by: Jennifer Keith, Holly Scotland
In 2021, the Progressive Conservative (PC) Government in Manitoba was issued a stern warning: “continue on the path of austerity they had started when elected in 2016 and Manitobans and the public service would suffer.” The report, commissioned by the …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Community Economic Development
