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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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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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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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Manitoba Housing and Renewal Corporation and Austerity
October 4, 2024 | Authored by: Sarah Cooper
Housing has long been a pressing issue in Manitoba. Although the Manitoba Housing and Renewal Corporation’s budget increased between 2011 and 2022, how housing needs are being addressed is shifting towards the market, with funding increasingly used to …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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A Betrayal of Trust: Exploring the Financialization of Lions Place in Winnipeg as a Case of Organizational Elder Abuse
May 7, 2024 | Authored by: Laura Funk, Rachel Dunsmore
The case of the sale of Lions Place represents both a major net loss of affordable housing and an example of the targeted dismantling of community for older adults in Winnipeg. We conclude that it can also be conceptualized as organizational elder neg …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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Thinking Inside the Box: Rediscovering How to Build Social Housing in Manitoba
March 6, 2024 | Authored by: Lynne Fernandez
Despite years of advocacy by Manitoba’s Right to Housing Coalition urging government to increase the supply of social housing, politicians seem convinced that the social housing crisis is an unsolvable problem that can only be tinkered with using priva …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Featured, Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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A Social Housing Action Plan for Manitoba
September 6, 2023 | Authored by: Kirsten Bernas, Shauna MacKinnon, Yutaka Dirks, Lynne Fernandez, Christina Maes Nino, Sarah Cooper
The Right to Housing Coalition has put forward a social housing action plan for Manitoba that pulls together solutions based on decades of research and consultation. The coalition is calling on all political parties in the 2023 provincial election to c …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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Right to Housing Coalition Social Housing Action Plan for Manitoba – 5 Pillars
September 5, 2023 | Authored by: The Right to Housing Coalition
-Click ‘View Publication’ to see the full backgrounder- The Right to Housing Coalition has put forward a social housing action plan for Manitoba that pulls together solutions based on decades of research and consultation. The coalition is calling on al …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
