If You Want to Change Violence in the ‘Hood, You Have to Change the ‘Hood: Violence and Street Gangs in Winnipeg’s Inner-city

There is growing concern about the level of violence in Winnipeg’s North End. The media regularly feature headline reports about gun violence, and street gang activity has become a focus of attention in the effort to “get tough on crime.” Against this …

2009 State of the Inner City Report – It Takes All Day to be Poor

From Revitalisation to Revaluation in the Spence Neighbourhood

Neighbourhood Renewal Corporations in Winnipeg’s Inner City: Practical activism in a complex environment

Winnipeg’s Best-Kept Secret: A community development vision for Sherbrook Pool

‘We got evicted…Did I leave that out?’: Stories of housing and mental health

A House Divided Cannot Stand: Joining forces to fight housing discrimination of refugees

‘More Strangers than Neighbours’: Aboriginal-African relations in Winnipeg’s inner city

2008 State of the Inner City Report: Putting our Housing in Order

It is a pleasure for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Manitoba to present the fourth annual State of the Inner City Report. As was the case with previous State of the Inner City Reports, this report is intended to both highlight current issu …

Alternative Access to Support, Resources, and Resistance: The role of newcomer communities

Focusing on inner-city Winnipeg – and using data from twelve semi-structured interviews conducted with Muslim newcomers who arrived in Winnipeg within the past five years – this paper will examine the role of the diaspora and community networks as a so …