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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
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“It’s A Scary Place to Come Out”: Exploring How Shelters in Westman Can Be Safer and More Welcoming for Transgender People
May 19, 2022 | Authored by: Matt Paterson
This project looks at what organizations that provide temporary housing in Westman can do to make transitional housing safe, accessible, and comfortable for transgender people. Starting from anecdotal evidence that current housing options in Brandon, M …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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Putting Home at the Heart of Refugee Resettlement
July 8, 2021 | Authored by: Ray Silvius, Emily Halldorson, Hani Ataan Al-Ubeady
The culmination of a 5-year study based on interviews with recently arrived former refugees finds that securing good housing is a key part of successful settlement. However, a tight rental housing market, insufficient financial support and limited supp …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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Staffing the Crisis: The Capacity of Eleven Municipal Housing Departments Across Canada
February 17, 2021 | Authored by: Stefan Hodges
This research turned to ten other Canadian cities to ask how municipal housing departments supported the creation of affordable rental housing, and how much staff capacity was dedicated to that effort. It was surprising to find that every surveyed cit …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization