Housing Bubble II: The Quest To Build Enough Homes Where People Actually Need Them

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Originally Posted by FactaNV

Great news out of Winnipeg, the first tranche (25MM) of the HAF funding Winnipeg received has been awarded. 11 projects will receive some of the money. Hopefully a new round of grantis are announced soon and the province matches some of this money.

The projects are as follows :

1. 440 Edmonton St. (UWCRC 2.0 Inc. & 10162513 Manitoba Ltd.): This project will convert a vacant 13-story commercial building into a residential complex with 180 transitional, social, and affordable housing units.

2. 145 Transcona Blvd. (Winnipeg Housing Rehabilitation Corporation): This new development will provide 154 units designed to house families and individuals with disabilities at risk of homelessness. Nearly half of the units will be deeply affordable.

3. Endaaying – Our Home (Ndinawemaaganag Endaawaad): This 23-unit transitional housing development will support Indigenous youth in Winnipeg’s North End.

4. Our Safe Space (Manitoba Inuit Association): This project will create 15 transitional housing units for Inuit women and women with children fleeing gender-based violence.

5. Market Lands North Mixed-Use (Market Lands Inc.): This mixed-use development will offer 128 housing units, including 48 deeply affordable units, along with commercial space and a daycare.

6. Second-Stage GBV Transitional Housing Project (University of Winnipeg Community Renewal Corporation): A new 15-unit transitional housing facility for Indigenous and Newcomer women, Two Spirit, trans, and non-binary individuals who have experienced gender-based violence.

7. 228 King St. & 261 Princess St. (Winnipeg Chinatown Development Corporation): This project will create 54 units in Chinatown, including affordable and rent-geared-to-income units.

8. 346 Pacific Ave. (MRH Properties): This development will convert a downtown parking lot into 128 units of housing, including 38 affordable units.

9. 2675 Portage Ave. (Shoal Lake 40 First Nation): This new development will provide 150 housing units, with about 40% being affordable.

10. 530 St. Mary Ave. & 252 Good St. (Longboat): This privately owned development will offer 165 units, including 50 affordable housing units and commercial space.

11. 125 Garry St. (Westgate Developments Ltd and LVDC Holdings Ltd): This project will convert a largely vacant commercial building into a mixed-use apartment with 126 housing units, including 32 affordable units.

These drop-in-the-bucket government-planned housing developments are not going to make housing affordable for the general public. Only for the lucky few who happen to get one of those few hundred units.