Compared to other western provinces, Manitoba public housing ownership, at 110 per 10,000, is orders of magnitude higher – over twice the levels in Saskatchewan and British Columbia (220%), and over 3 times the Alberta level (305%).
Year: 2008
Media Release – New Frontier Centre Backgrounder Shows How 21,000 More Manitobans Could Get Affordable Housing
21,000 more low-income Manitobans could be helped if the provincial government sold the province’s residential real estate portfolio, this according to a new study from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy
Let Detroit Face The Music
A bailout would only buy time, allowing Detroit to make it to the next bailout, with government running the show in an increasingly distorted and regulated market. A bankruptcy process should install a permanent reorganization, with the companies (or whatever combination emerges) still part of a viable auto industry operating in a genuine market.
The Case for Selling Public Housing in Manitoba
The Manitoba government should sell its residential real estate holdings to the private sector and then concentrate on providing targeted subsidies to low-income Manitobans, this according to a new backgrounder from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. The report, from Frontier research associate Dan Klymchuk, shows how $25 million could be shaved off annual operating costs now paid by the provincial government, and instead redirected to those Manitobans in need of subsidized shelter. That $25 million could help subsidize 21,000 more people with their housing costs.
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Media Release: Restoring Peter Lougheed’s Original Vision
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