Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives--Manitoba - Poor housing: a silent crisis

Aboriginal people ,

Axworthy Lloyd

bed bugs ,

Bug N Scrub ,

Chamber of Commerce ,

Chicago of the North ,

Citizen Immigration Canada

City Council ,

claimants

cockroaches ,

community partnership

Cooperative Housing Federation of Canada

CHF Canada

core housing need ,

decline of stock

eviction ,

Federation of Canadian Municipalities ,

General Strike ,

gentrification ,

Good Food Club ,

government sponsored

Hellyer Paul

history , ,

homelessness ,

housing allowance ,

housing first ,

Housing Improvement Zones ,

housing policy ,

inclusionary zoning ,

infant mortality ,

Inner city

inspections ,

KPMG audit

localism ,

Lord Selkirk Park ,

loss of stock

Manitoba Housing and Community Development ,

Manitoba Housing Renewal Corporation

Manitoba Interfaith Immigration Council ,

minimum wage ,

municipal housing tools

National Housing Act ,

national housing strategy ,

National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth ,

Neechi Principles

neighbourhood decline

neighbourhood renewal ,

Neighbourhood Renewal Corporations ,

Neighbourhood Resource Centre ,

neoliberalism ,

North End , ,

operating agreements ,

OurWinnipeg ,

Parkdale Toronto

Payuk Inter-tribal Housing Co-op

pesticides ,

population ,

Property Improvement Program ,

property tax ,

public investment ,

racism ,

refugees ,

Regent Park ,

rent control ,

rental history ,

Resource Centre , ,

Right to Housing Coalition ,

Rooming House Outreach Project ,

rooming houses ,

security deposit ,

segregation ,

single individuals ,

single parents ,

small area planning ,

smallpox ,

social determinants of health ,

social enterprises ,

spatial concentration ,

Spence Neighbourhood Association ,

St. Matthews Anglican Church ,

street gangs

suburbanization ,

Tenant Landlord Cooperation program ,

tenant rights

Toronto Bed Bug Project ,

transportation loans

typhoid ,

urban renewal ,

vacancy rates ,

Welcome Place ,

West Broadway , ,

West Broadway Community Organization ,

WestEnd Commons ,

Winnipeg Housing and Homelessness Initiative Program

Winnipeg Poverty Reduction Council ,

zero equity cooperatives

Zuken Joe

W e are pleased to acknowledge the generous financial support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada through the Manitoba Research Alliance (MRA) grant titled Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty. The MRA has provided financial support for the research for almost all of the chapters in this book and for the two workshops that helped to shape the book.

We are also pleased to acknowledge the support of all the people at Fernwood Publishing who have been involved with this book Beverley Rach Debbie Mathers Curran Faris John van der Woude who designed the cover for the book and as always and in particular Wayne Antony whose contributions to this book are many.

We also extend a sincere thanks to all of the authors of the chapters in this book each of whom has been fully cooperative in responding to suggestions and in meeting timelines. It has made our work as editors much more of a pleasure than would otherwise have been the case.

We are happy to express our gratitude to the community of progressive researchers and activists working in Winnipegs inner city. Many are associated with the Manitoba Research Alliance and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Manitoba; others are working in various ways in other community organizations. Together you make Winnipegs inner city an exciting place to be and to work in.

We particularly want to thank Karen Mackintosh Loa Henry and the friends and family who have supported and inspired us throughout this project.

Josh Brandon and Jim Silver

HANI AL-UBEADY is a housing counsellor with a community-based organization in Winnipegs inner city, and he has worked in the sector for nearly fourteen years. His passion for better housing for refugees drives him to be actively engaged in searching for realistic and better solutions to improve the lives of new Canadians.

JOSH BRANDON is a community animator with the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg. He has written on housing issues for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Manitoba, and he is a member of the Right to Housing Coalition in Winnipeg.

MARY BURTON is the rental safety coordinator at the Spence Neighbourhood Association.

ELIZABETH COMACK is a professor of sociology at the University of Manitoba. Over the past three decades, she has written and conducted research on a variety of social justice topics. Elizabeths current research projects stem from her involvement in the Manitoba Research Alliances sshrc partnership project, Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty, in which she leads the Justice, Safety, and Security stream of the project.

SARAH COOPER is a Ph.D. student in urban planning and policy at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Her research examines housing for low-income households in Canada and focuses on the expiry of the social housing operating agreements.

TYLER CRAIG is a Plains Cree originally from Alberta and was a student researcher with the Manitoba Research Alliance. He has a bachelor of arts degree in northern and Aboriginal studies and is committed to Aboriginal community development in Manitoba and Alberta.

JANICE GOODMAN has been working in Winnipegs North End since 1983 in the field of community development. She is a Metis from the Interlake region of Manitoba. Janice is currently the community development director with the North End Community Renewal Corporation and works with residents and stakeholders in the revitalization of local neighbouroods.

RACHEL GOTTHILF is a Winnipeg-based legal researcher and writer. From 2009 to 2012, she was a volunteer housing rights advisor at Project Genesis, a community organization in Montreal. She was called to the bars of Manitoba and Ontario in 2013 after completing joint degrees in common law and civil law at McGill University.

EMILY HALLDORSON has conducted community-based research on adult education and refugee housing. She holds a bachelors degree from the University of Winnipeg in political science, and is currently the coordinator of an innovative preschool literacy project in the North End of Winnipeg. She is committed to working to strengthen the assets of her own inner city community and is an advocate for Indigenous and newcomer populations.

BLAIR HAMILTON has been working in Winnipegs community development sector for over twenty-five years, in a variety of capacities. He is currently a program manager with the Cooperative Housing Federation of Canada.

CHEYENNE HENRY is the program coordinator for the University of Winnipegs Department of Urban and Inner-City Studies, located off-campus on Selkirk Avenue in Winnipegs North End. She previously worked as the community outreach worker at the Lord Selkirk Park Resource Centre. Cheyenne is Anishinabe from Roseau River First Nation.

ISABEL JEREZ is the housing coordinator at the Spence Neighbourhood Association, a neighbourhood tenewal corporation in Winnipeg. She is a member of Manitobas Rooming House Task Force.

MUSAH KHALID is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at the University of Manitoba. He received his masters degree in economics from Youngstown State University in Ohio. His research interest includes applied microeconometrics, informal labour markets and cost-benefit analysis.