In June 2019, Old Grace Not-for-Profit Housing Co-operative (OGHC) held its grand opening. The first members of the 64-unit co-op in Winnipeg’s downtown Wolseley neighbourhood had moved in a little more than a year before, and the opening was the culmination of seven...
This report is a qualitative evaluation of the Futures Forward six month intensive Housing First pilot project. As such, this report will provide a qualitative analysis of: (1) the pathways to youth homelessness in order to provide context of the social conditions...
This paper is a companion piece to the report, Making Social Housing Friendly for Resettling Refugees. The intention with the present paper is to build on our assessment in the previous work. Ultimately, we are interested in understanding the relationships between...
This work is an extension of a longer-term project that began in 2015, in which we partnered with Welcome Place, the housing arm of the Manitoba Interfaith Immigration Council (MIIC), which provides housing, legal and settlement supports for newly arriving refugees in...
War and persecution force refugees to leave behind all that they know to embark on new and challenging experiences of resettlement. In Winnipeg, they meet a web of service providers willing to assist them in this process. Some of these organizations assist resettling...
