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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
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Social Housing as a Human Right: A Housing Rights Primer
April 14, 2023 | Authored by: Kimberly Langille, Shauna MacKinnon, Sarah Cooper, Shayne St. Denis, Sahla Mitchell
The 2017 National Housing Strategy (NHS) was intended to reduce core housing need and homelessness through a range of programs, research, and funding initiatives. Five years after the launch of the NHS, social housing experts and advocates describe the …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization