Housing

The Reweaving Support Project approach to the housing affordability and supply crisis is to focus to determine the scope of the social housing short fall, on creating a formula to determine the number of low rent units needed, the units needed in the social housing portfolio, then determining the best approach to how many should be public housing and how many can be not for profit. The ability of the private sector to supply of low rent housing is also up for consideration and the best way to guaranteed quality for subsidies to house people requiring housing support in the private sector.

The Reweaving Support Project is focused on preventing homelessness, housing precarity and housing insecurity by increasing the supply of and protecting the existing supply of low rent housing. This means building the supply of social and public housing, regulating rents and tenancy to prevent unsustainable rent increases, renovictions, condo-conversions, gentrification, privatization and the financialization of housing. Canada and Manitoba are obligated, as signatories to the UN Covenant for Social and Economic Rights, to ensure homelessness and a lack of housing and housing unaffordability are a thing of the past.

Key Groups	The lead organization for housing security is Canadian Centre for Housing Rights.
System Mapping	Who are the partners in providing housing security and housing services? How do they relate and communicate?
Reweaving Support Baseline Change Matrix	This tool shows the current spending and fiscal framework, legal and policy framework, staffing and programming, public education, community engagement or partnerships and governance frameworks for housing security programs.
Historical overview and evolution of our social housing, rent supplement and rent regulation systems
Situation Assessment	Drivers of gender based violence – sense making and situation analysis
Change Matrix for a new housing security system	The main work of the project is engaging as many Manitobans as possible with experience in the supply of social and public housing, in landlord and tenant cooperation, in rent regulation and rent supplement initiatives and services to re-imagining our housing security systems. This includes supports for all people, all parents and families, all Manitobans no matter their age, ethnicity, gender, location, ability or citizenship. Of particular interest in the inter-jurisdictional role clarification for Manitoba between the municipal, provincial, federal governments as well as the community and private sector for housing security.

Key Reports and Strategies (local and other jurisdictions)

	Homeless on homelands: upholding housing as a human right for indigenous women, girls, two-spirit, and gender-diverse people. Author: National Indigenous Feminist Housing Working Group under the leadership of Marie McGregor Pitawanakwat and Katlia Lafferty Date: 2022 Read More
	A Social Housing Action Plan for Manitoba. Author: Kirsten Bernas, Sarah Cooper, Yutaka Dirks, Lynne Fernandez, Shauna MacKinnon, Christina Maes Nino Date: 2023 Read More
	An Intersectional Feminist Housing Agenda for Canada Authors: Khulud Baig, Kaitlin Schwan, Ange Valentini, Stefania Seccia, Arlene Hache, Michaela Mayer, Jayne Malenfant, Shauna MacKinnon, Marie McGregor Pitawankwat, Hajar Masoud, Sarah McIntosh, Laura Winters, Hilary Marks, Hilary Chapple, Alex Nelson, Nicole Chaland, Elizabeth Zimmerman, Valerie Sadler, Michelle Bilek, Faith Eiboff, Kirsten Bernas, Janice Campbell, Shawn Bayes, and members of the Women’s National Housing & Homelessness Network’s Steering Committee and the Advisory Committee of the Pan-Canadian Voice on Women’s Housing. Date: 2023 Read More
	Assisting Renters - Manitoba's Rent Assist in the Context of Canada's National Housing Strategy Authors: By Sarah Cooper, Jesse Hajer and Shayna Plaut Date: 2020 Read More
	Blueprint for Housing Authors: The Canadian Housing and Renewal Association Date: 2022 Read More
	Community Housing Needs Assessment for Manitoba Authors: Mark Courtney in collaboration with Manitoba Non-Profit Housing Association (MNPHA) Date: 2023 Read More
	Connecting The Circle - A gender-based strategy to end homelessness in Winnipeg Authors: West Central Women's Resource Centre WCWRC Date: 2019 Read More
	Understanding Women’s Housing Precarity: Before and Beyond the Pandemic Author: Brenda Parker, Catherine Leviten-Reid, and Isobel Araujo Date:2021 Read More