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.
Hrm, the housing minister Gregor Robertson promised something similar when he was mayor of Vancouver, and homelessness just got worse.
I’m pretty skeptical, but I guess we’ll see.
I have no doubt that it’s a difficult problem to tackle, especially right now when the cost of living is ballooning out of control.
I think MB’s approach has been promising, but it will probably run into some severe road blocks once they run out of relatively cheap buildings they can buy and convert into housing.