In particular, the government is proposing a new housing partnership directly with Manitoba, investing $1 billion through Build Canada Homes. The money will go to transitional housing and wraparound services – personalized supports that aim to address overlapping issues — in Winnipeg, and to building 2,000 new transitional and permanent supportive housing units in the city.
Looks like a pretty large chunk of this is going to programs that actually produce houses and putting homeless people in them this looks pretty good on the surface, another chunk going to healthcare and mental health in general seems pretty great. 28billion is nothing to sneeze at. I’m not sure it will completely end homelessness but I do think this will help a lot of people and at first glance seems to at least somewhat align with what experts recommend.
Apparently Carney will be in Winnipeg tomorrow to expand on the plan - from this article, it looks like they’re going to be supporting the strategies that have been rolled out by the provincial government over the last year, rather than replacing them.