Why Protecting Public Housing is Important

Public housing plays an essential role in Manitoba’s housing system. It provides a specific form of housing: decommodified housing that is affordable to low-income households. This means that it has been removed from the market by focusing on its use a …

Income Security to End Poverty in Manitoba

Canada’s and Manitoba’s income assistance programs provide support to individuals and families when they have no other way to support themselves. There are 71,500 Manitobans receiving provincial EIA and 43,455 Manitobans receiving Federal Income Assist …

A Good Place to Live: The transformation of public housing in Lord Selkirk Park

The KPMG Report: No solution for the low-income housing problem

Consulting firm KPMG’s recommendations that Manitoba Housing units be sold and that the private sector play a greater role in providing housing for low-income people are profoundly mistaken. Far from being the solution to the problem of low-income hous …

City of Thompson: Youth Homelessness/Housing Instability Count 2016

The main reason for initiating a Youth Count was to begin to gather some base-line knowledge about youth homelessness in northern Manitoba and to pose questions such as: Who are the youth experiencing housing instability and homelessness? What are thei …