The Manitoba government is introducing new legislation that would amend the Social Services Appeal Board Act to provide a more efficient and flexible process on how the board hears and decides cases filed with it.
Forty per cent of people renting in rural Manitoba are considered to be in “core housing need" they're either paying too much, living in spaces that are too small for the number of residents or in housing that's in a poor state of repair.
Winnipeg Free Press
Triple whammy
Rising cost of housing, food inflation and high unemployment combine to take bigger bite out of your grocery budget
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Harvest Manitoba CEO Keren Taylor-Hughes says the rising cost of housing is another barrier to people accessing food. ‘With the cost of everything except wages increasing, we find that there is too much month left at the end of the month.’
The effects of the rapidly increasing cost of housing, both rentals and home ownership, combined with food inflation and an ongoing weak job market, are adding to concerns about food affordability across the country.