Engendering Alternative Justice: Criminalized Women, Alternative Justice and Neoliberalism

Feminist criminologists have a long history of arguing against the use of imprisonment and other formal justice system processes for criminalized women. Often feminist analyses of the formal criminal justice system end with a call for community alterna …

The Political Economy of Culturally Appropriate Foods in Winnipeg: A Case of Refugee Path Immigrants

Drawing on our Strengths: State of the Inner City Report 2015

It has recently been claimed in the media that nothing is working in the fight against poverty. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ State of the Inner City Report 2015: Drawing on Our Strengths, shows that this is not the case. Important pover …

Fast Facts – Gains are being made: State of the Inner City Report 2015

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ State of the Inner City Report 2015: Drawing on Our Strengths, shows that this is not the case. Important poverty-related indicators are improving. After decades of decline, public investment in community-le …

Fast Facts: National Housing Day – A Profile of WestEnd Commons

This past weekend marked Canada’s National Housing Day. In recent history, housing in Canada hasn’t been a hopeful topic. In 1993 federal funds for new social housing development were cut and responsibility for social housing was devolved to the provin …

Lived Experiences and Perspectives: Women, Mental Health and Housing in Winnipeg

Lived Experience and Perspectives: Women, Mental Health and Housing in Winnipeg is a qualitative research study seeking to understand the experiences of women with mental illness living in supportive housing environments, their concerns and hopes for i …

The Inclusion of Aboriginal Voices in Co-constructing “Home”: Aboriginal Homelessness in a Northern Semi-urban Community in Manitoba

Dominant approaches to homelessness often exclude the voices of those without a home, when solutions are designed. We argue that attempts to develop meaningful and long-term initiatives without including the voices of homeless people run the risk of fa …

Poor Housing: A Silent Crisis

Across Canada, there is a severe shortage of decent quality housing that is affordable to those with low incomes, and much of the housing that is available is inadequate, even appalling. The poor condition of housing for those below the poverty line ad …

Fast Facts: New Federal Government: Opportunity to End Crisis of Poor Housing

For Winnipeg residents with low incomes, the lack of affordable quality housing is a crisis. With a potential partner at the federal level, the possibility for progress exists, but housing activists must redouble their efforts to put end poor housing i …

Addressing Core Housing Need in Canada

Social housing is at risk in Canada. Just a few decades ago, Canada had an internationallyrecognized social housing portfolio, but today the supply of public, nonprofit and cooperative housing is in a downward spiral. As a result, over a million low-in …