POLICY FIX
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Increasing Benefits for Low-income Manitoba Renters Through Rent Assist
By Josh Brandon and Jesse Hajer
Re-establishing their Lives: Issues Relating to Affordable Housing for Women and their Children Escaping Violent Relationships in Northern Manitoba.
By Allison Groening, Colin Bonnycastle, Marleny Bonnycastle, Kendra Nixon and Judith Hughes
UNSPUN 2019 Series: Housing and the Manitoba Election
By Kirsten Bernas and Sarah Cooper
The changing nature of social housing in Manitoba
By Sarah Cooper What makes social housing ‘social’? In part, social housing is different from private-market housing because it intentionally provides low-cost housing for low-income households. But it is also a way of taking housing out of the …
Drop the Stereotypes and deal with the real problem
By Jim Silver First published in the Winnipeg Free Press September 28, 2018 In August the Free Press published an article (Safety complaints at Lord Selkirk Park, Aug. 24, 2018) that painted a very negative picture of Lord …
Should the City of Winnipeg subsidize high-end housing downtown?
By Shauna MacKinnon On Thursday September 20, Winnipeg City Council will vote on a motion to clear the way for True North Square (TNS) to receive an $8 million subsidy through the City’s Tax Increment Financing (TIF) program. …
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