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Fast Facts: Make Homelessness History
Homelessness has recently been much in the news, because of the tragic deaths of three homeless people in Winnipeg and also because of the Canadian…
Fast Facts: Lessons from Toronto
Winnipeg’s Rooming House Challenge On April 16th, 2014, a fire broke out in a rooming house on Enfield Crescent in Winnipeg’s St. Boniface neighbourhood. The…
Low response in National Household Survey leads to bias
Download 985.33 KB 3 pages When the Government of Canada decided to cancel the long form census for 2011 and replace it with the voluntary…
Fast Facts: Counting women in
A gender-based analysis of homelessness International Women’s Day (IWD) will be celebrated this weekend. Although progress has been made regarding women’s rights and equality, the…
Fast Facts: The View From Here 2015
Manitobans call for a Renewed Poverty Reduction Plan WINNIPEG—To address persistent poverty in this province, community groups have outlined a plan to provide Manitobans with…
Fast Facts: Make new development fund affordable housing
City council will vote on a plan for a new suburb on the northwest edge of Winnipeg on December 10. As it stands, the proposed…
Moving to the City
Housing and Aboriginal Migration to Winnipeg Download 2.18 MB 46 pages Winnipeg can only succeed if the Aboriginal people of this city find success. Ensuring…
Fast Facts: Meeting the housing needs of Aboriginal people moving to Winnipeg
Winnipeg is home to Canada’s largest Aboriginal population. Aboriginal people, however, are among the most likely to experience homelessness and are also over-represented in housing…
Fast Facts: Can a Housing First Initiative Work?
Homelessness is a major problem in Winnipeg. In 2014 the Winnipeg Poverty Reduction Council estimated that at any time approximately 350 individuals stayed in one…
A Terrific Loss
The Expiring Social Housing Operating Agreements in Manitoba Download 604.39 KB16 pages For decades, social housing has been an integral part of Canadian housing and…
Fast Facts: Federal withdrawal results in loss of social housing
Manitoba is losing subsidized rental housing units—a delayed result of the federal government’s withdrawal from funding social housing in the 1990s. As operating agreements between…
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