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.
I get that it’s not a simple issue to fix overnight, but a politician saying they have a plan to do it “in 10 years” feels like a very convenient timeline that they may or may not be in office to see to the end. So it they get ousted from office before then they can just be like “oh well see we had more plans in place but now we won’t get to finish those” when they failed to fix the problem before then.
Don’t propose a grand decade long plan, just fucking take steps to improve things right now. Tax the wealth class, stop catering to landlords. Fund and build some goddamn addiction and mental health facilities. This shit can happen pretty quickly if people in power actually care enough.
It’s a bit of a damned if you do/damned if you don’t situation.
Personally, I think all government initiatives should come with concrete timelines and milestones against which to measure progress, but there are loads of reasons governments are reluctant to do so, for reasons that are both understandable and often selfish.
if every politician combined Federally and provincially builds one single affordable house, I will be shocked.