Winnipeg Free Press
Shawenim Abinoojii executive director Jason Whitford and Brandy Kowal-Funk, program manager of Shawenim’s Memengoo program, outside Noble Court, which will be turned into affordable housing for youth and young adults. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
It doesn’t look like much, the dilapidated apartment building at the end of Alfred Avenue east of Main Street. Many of its windows are boarded up, shattered into sharp shards, or surrounded by a charred halo. Across most of its century-old red brick walls is a stream of graffiti befitting a building that’s been somewhat neglected and forgotten since a fire tore through it five years ago.