Human Resources committee  Thank you for the opportunity to speak today. I'd like to acknowledge that my presentation takes place in Winnipeg on Treaty 1 land and the homeland of the Métis nation. My name is Jino Distasio. I'm the director of the institute of urban studies. I've been with the university s

Human Resources committee  Manitoba did try the guaranteed income program.

Human Resources committee  Again, we always look at that. My view remains that income is one part of this. Again, maybe as an educator, I still feel that, as we all know, the single greatest determinant of well-being and healthy outcomes is education. Education to me is the piece.

Human Resources committee  Again, I would suggest that over the last 30-plus years, going back to either neighbourhood improvement programs, NIP and RRAP, and all these kinds of initiatives, I still think that the HPS framework provides a mechanism that has enabled local communities to create entities to r

Human Resources committee  I think that's a recurring thought. It's hard to put a single.... I think the federal government has done not a bad job with respect to housing and homelessness over the last 15 to 17 years. I think, interestingly, that policy has evolved from the 1999 approach to building shelte

Human Resources committee  I think we've just burdened organizations. I'll give you an example. I received HPS money to do a report on the African housing situation in your neighbourhood, $25,000, and toward the end I said to the community entity, “Why don't you just keep the money? I can't deal with all y

Human Resources committee  Yes. I think there is room for some exploration. Again, selfishly, the At Home/Chez Soi project is a good example of an applied research demonstration project. We were demonstrating housing first in five Canadian cities that then leveraged $650 million through HPS into housing fi

Human Resources committee  She was a powerhouse.

Human Resources committee  Absolutely. Housing is the easiest part of the puzzle. We can build the best housing in the world and we do.

Human Resources committee  We need to continue to fund the teams through, say, the At Home project, which identified teams that provide those levels of support. Remember, our intervention was focused on those with very high needs, mental health needs, addiction, more moderate needs. Our intervention was o

Human Resources committee  Yes. I'll give you an example. I'm going to use the University of Winnipeg. We're an academic centre. Out our door we established the Wii Chiiwaakanak Learning Centre, which is the front door to the community members that never thought they had a place on campus. Now, every day

Human Resources committee  After school programs run by education students, run by staff, run on vapour, because we have no money for this. We built a rec-plex, through Dr. Axworthy, that signed a community charter so that kids in Allan's neighbourhoods can come. As well, 30% of that time, we've just giv

Human Resources committee  A few have edged us out. I think we're moving slightly, but not much at all.

Human Resources committee  Thank you for the question. It's very important. We've had an opportunity to work with both the AMC and MMF a few years ago looking at aboriginal mobility into Winnipeg. We tracked 600 people over three years from 125 different communities in this province into Winnipeg. Over t

Human Resources committee  Agreed. I think that has to go hand in hand with supporting families and supporting families living in quality housing. Yes, you have my full support.