Winnipeg Without Poverty
There is a new report coming out outlining how the City of Winnipeg can take the lead in efforts to reduce poverty.
Make Poverty History Manitoba will launch their city poverty reduction plan Winnipeg Without Poverty: Calling on the City to Lead at a community event May 2, 2018 at MERC 430 Langside St at 10am.
Head to the Facebook event with more information here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1614850135296065/
Update: SPCW Hiring of Office and Communications Assistant
Thank you to all to applied to this posting! Due to the tremendous response (we stopped counting at 200!), we have chosen to delay interviewing to make sure we give all applications due consideration. We hope to have contacted those chosen for an interview by the end of this week. Please stay tuned!
Finally a National Housing Strategy
An analysis of the plan and the potential, if we work together
With this analysis, the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg and the Right to Housing Coalition examines exactly what the federal government is offering and how we in Manitoba can best capitalize on the plan. The federal government stepped out of housing and left it all to provincial and territorial governments decades ago. “The result has been a patchwork approach with very mixed results” according to Kate Kehler, executive director of the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg.
“This is a time to recognize and capitalize on what the federal government is offering. We want to urge the provincial government to match the resources on offer in order to fulfill what should be every Canadian resident’s right to safe and affordable housing” report author Josh Brandon.
The provincial budget will be presented on Monday, March 12th. “Our supporters are calling on the Manitoba government to release the long awaited provincial housing strategy alongside Budget 2018. We will be watching for the budget to invest in that housing strategy, demonstrating that this government is prepared to leverage as many dollars as it can to support people experiencing housing insecurity and homelessness across Manitoba,” Kirsten Bernas, spokesperson for the Right to Housing Coalition.
“At Right to Housing, we have been asking for a National Housing Strategy for over a decade. Now that Ottawa is responding, it is important that we get the details right so that we meet the needs of low income people in Manitoba who need housing,” said Clark Brownlee, founding member of Right to Housing.
You can download the full report here:
Finally a National Housing Strategy PDF
To comment on the National Housing strategy before the provincial budget Get Your Letters to the Minister in!
We are asking all of our supporters to send a letter to the Province before March 12, 2018 to demonstrate that housing is a priority for Manitobans.
Please feel free to use our template with your own letterhead. Send your letter to The Minister of Finance minfin@leg.gov.mb.ca.
Be sure to cc the Premier andthe Minister of Families:
premier@leg.gov.mb.ca and minfs@leg.gov.mb.ca
And BCC us! coordinator@righttohousing.ca.
The budget is fast approaching so please send your letter as soon as possible.