Winnipeg’s homeless community may be growing despite efforts to reduce some of the pressures forcing people onto the street.
End Homelessness Winnipeg says there were 8,248 people using shelters, temporary spaces or living on the streets as of the end of March.
“We know Winnipeggers are deeply concerned about our unsheltered relatives,” End Homelessness CEO Jennifer Moore Rattray told CBC News on Monday.
“The problem of lack of safe, affordable housing is just growing, as we can see from the data year over year and even month over month.”
End Homelessness says the number of people entering homelessness “is outpacing” those able to secure housing, with 104 newly homeless people in March compared with February.
There are more homeless people in Winnipeg than there are in Finland. We can do so much better.
Tax the wealthy. Reform voting.
Does anyone know if algorithmic pricing tools are being used by Winnipeg landlords? I have heard real estate agents have been known in Winnipeg to buy up inventory to force scarcity and raise prices, but I don’t know about the rental market.
RealPage and Yardi were investigated by Canada’s Competition Bureau. Unfortunate they said they didn’t find enough evidence to prove its use affected rental pricing but supposedly they will keep an eye on it.
With Carney’s new majority expect this to get worst.
