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

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A Social Housing Action Plan for Manitoba.

Author: Kirsten Bernas, Sarah Cooper, Yutaka Dirks, Lynne Fernandez, Shauna MacKinnon, Christina Maes Nino

Date: 2023

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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

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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

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Blueprint for Housing 

Authors: The Canadian Housing and Renewal Association

Date: 2022

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Community Housing Needs Assessment for Manitoba

Authors: Mark Courtney in collaboration with Manitoba Non-Profit Housing Association (MNPHA)

Date: 2023

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Connecting The Circle - A gender-based strategy to end homelessness in Winnipeg

Authors: West Central Women's Resource Centre WCWRC

Date: 2019

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Understanding Women’s Housing Precarity: Before and Beyond the Pandemic

Author: Brenda Parker, Catherine Leviten-Reid, and Isobel Araujo

Date:2021

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The Latest News

Author: CHEC

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Efficiency for All - A review of provincial/territorial low-income energy efficiency programs with lessons for federal policy in Canada

Author: Abhilash Kantamneni and Brendan Haley

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