FAST FACTS - Winnipeg Budget 2005 Bad news for the inner city

this will make many business owners smile, but what will be the cost? While far from perfect, the WHHI has made some gains in providing community groups with single It appears that the first thing to go will be the window access to a City’s commitment to number of federal, inner city provincial and city revitalization and At a time when the federal and programs. [...] While the In 2000 the City of indicating some recognition that provincial and federal Winnipeg signed an there is a need to scale up governments might beagreement with the Provincial and housing development in the slow to take the nextstep, they at least Federal inner city, Mayor Katz has his seem to understandgovernments and the that the magnitude of Winnipeg Housing lawyers looking for ways to g. [...] In 2003, time when the federal and provincial governments Mayor Murray signed a Memorandum of are indicating some recognition that there is a Understanding with the Federal and Provincial need to scale up housing development in the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-MB inner-city, Mayor Katz has his lawyers looking for There is no money in this year’s budget for ways to get the city out of th. [...] The City of Saskatoon has led the way Inner-city development and rehabilitation of by providing support for the Saskatoon Housing housing benefits our entire community and the Investment Fund for affordable housing. [...] The MTS Centre, the - Shauna MacKinnon is the Director of the CCPA in new Winnipeg Library and the Red River Campus Manitoba are adding to the liveliness of downtown.