Oraye St. Franklyn

Posted: October 14, 2025 Filed Under: Media Releases

Winnipeg, Manitoba – October 14, 2025

End Homelessness Winnipeg (EHW) welcomes today’s announcement of over $9 million in combined federal and provincial funding to repair 738 affordable rental homes across Manitoba. This investment represents a meaningful step toward preserving Manitoba’s existing affordable housing stock and ensuring that individuals and families have safe, stable places to live.

Affordable housing repairs are a crucial part of the broader effort to prevent homelessness. With aging units across the province, reinvestment is necessary to extend the life of existing homes while building new supply to meet growing needs. In Winnipeg alone, the 2024 Winnipeg Street Census revealed that about 2,500 people were experiencing homelessness on a single night, with many more living in hidden homelessness situations, staying temporarily with friends or family, in unsafe or overcrowded housing, or cycling through shelters and institutions.

EHW emphasizes that while today’s investment is a strong example of Federal–Provincial partnership, significant gaps remain. The scale of housing need in Winnipeg continues to far exceed available units. Repairs, though essential, must be paired with ongoing investments in new deeply affordable and supportive housing, targeted toward people with the greatest barriers to housing stability.

“This investment is encouraging and deeply appreciated,” said Jackie Hunt, Senior Director Strategy and Impact, End Homelessness Winnipeg. “But we must be honest about the scale of what’s needed. For every affordable home repaired, there are still far too many people waiting for one. Winnipeg’s housing crisis requires sustained collaboration between governments, community partners, and the private sector to ensure that everyone has a home they can afford and sustain.”

EHW continues to advocate for policies and investments that align with its mission of ensuring that everyone in Winnipeg has a home and the supports they need to keep it. This includes increasing the supply of deeply affordable rental housing, supporting Indigenous-led housing initiatives, and improving access to culturally safe supports that prevent homelessness before it begins.

For media inquiries, please contact:

Oraye St. Franklyn

Manager, Communications & Community Relations
End Homelessness Winnipeg
Email: ofranklyn@endhomelessnesswinnipeg.ca
Phone: 431-323-8896

Posted: October 10, 2025 Filed Under: Media Releases

That No One Is Left Behind

Statement by End Homelessness Winnipeg on World Homeless Day 2025, October 10, 2025

Today, on World Homeless Day, we are reminded that homelessness is not confined to what we see on the streets. It includes those whose struggles remain hidden. People sleeping in cars, doubled up in overcrowded apartments, staying temporarily with friends, or enduring unsafe living conditions. These stories are harder to witness, easier to overlook, yet they are part of a growing crisis that continues to shape our city.

The 2024 Winnipeg Street Census revealed that 2,469 people are experiencing homelessness in our community, nearly double the number recorded in 2022. It is the highest count in ten years. Of these, almost eighty percent identified as Indigenous, a reflection of the ongoing systemic inequities that trace back generations. Behind every figure is a person whose story speaks of loss, resilience, and a system that has not yet done enough to catch them.

Homelessness is rarely caused by a single event. It is often the result of overlapping pressures: the high cost of housing, low income, eviction, trauma, discrimination, untreated mental health challenges, or a lack of support after leaving systems like foster care, hospitals, or correctional facilities. In the Street Census, people most often cited low income, eviction, and substance use among the main reasons they lost their housing. When these pressures converge, they form a web that can pull anyone under.

And yet, in the midst of this, there are people who refuse to let others slip through the cracks. Across Winnipeg, outreach workers, shelter staff, Indigenous service providers, and volunteers show up each day to meet people where they are at. They listen. They provide warmth, food, and connection. They do this often without recognition, but their work is what keeps many from being completely lost. Today, we acknowledge their commitment and compassion. They stand in the gap where policy ends and humanity begins.

At End Homelessness Winnipeg, our work is to bring people and systems together; to turn collaboration into solutions, to help ensure that every person has a place to belong. The partnerships forming across this sector are powerful. Organizations share knowledge, resources, and data. Governments, community groups, and lived-experience leaders are aligning their efforts to address the crisis more effectively. It is not easy work, but it is necessary, and it is beginning to take shape.

Still, we must do more. Governments must build and preserve deeply affordable and supportive housing. Income supports must reflect the reality of today’s cost of living. Evictions must be prevented before they happen. Mental health and addictions services must be accessible to everyone who needs them. Data must be used to drive policy, not justify inaction. And we, as a community, must continue to see homelessness not as someone else’s problem, but as our shared responsibility.

The 2024 Street Census and other community reports have made the situation clear: homelessness is rising, and without bold, coordinated action, it will continue to grow. But this day is not only about crisis. It is also about possibility. Every individual, organization, and level of government has a role to play. We can choose to build homes instead of shelters, to fund prevention instead of emergency response, and to listen rather than assume.

If you are reading this, you can make a difference. Speak up for housing that everyone can afford. Support local organizations working directly with people who are unhoused. Learn about hidden homelessness and help bring it into the open. Each action, no matter how small, contributes to a collective shift toward dignity and belonging.

Homelessness is not inevitable. It is a problem created by systems and choices, and it can be solved by systems and choices made differently. On this World Homeless Day, we renew our commitment to a future where every person in Winnipeg, and everywhere else, has a place to call home.

End Homelessness Winnipeg

Posted: October 7, 2025 Filed Under: Community Blog, Media Releases

End Homelessness Winnipeg welcomes the new private investments in the Collaborative Housing Alliance Real Estate Investment Trust (CHAR). True North Sports & Entertainment has invested five million dollars, and the Mahon Family Foundation has contributed two million dollars. Along with the Province of Manitoba’s $10m seed investment through the Business Council of Manitoba, this partnership signals a shared commitment to expanding affordable housing and improving lives across our province.

The 2024 Winnipeg Street Census confirmed what our community already knows. Indigenous peoples remain vastly overrepresented among those experiencing homelessness, accounting for more than 80% of everyone without stable housing in our city. Addressing this reality requires solutions that are rooted in truth and partnership. CHAR’s model offers a pathway that welcomes private investors to join in building homes that honour the right to shelter and belonging for all.

The CHAR initiative was designed to attract private capital toward housing that delivers both social and financial returns. It recognizes that housing is essential infrastructure for community wellbeing. By drawing on private expertise and investment, CHAR helps close the gaps that public funding alone cannot bridge.

These contributions arrive at a critical moment. Housing insecurity is deepening across Canada, and the cost of inaction continues to fall hardest on Indigenous families, single parents, youth, and older adults. End Homelessness Winnipeg looks forward to working alongside CHAR and its partners to ensure that new investments support culturally grounded housing, prioritize those most in need, and move us closer to a city where everyone belongs.

The decision by True North Sports & Entertainment and the Mahon Family Foundation to invest where profit is not guaranteed reflects courage and care for community. Their leadership shows what is possible when prosperity is shared and commitment is collective. We encourage other private and philanthropic partners to take up this challenge and stand with us in building homes, restoring dignity, and advancing reconciliation through action.

Jackie Hunt
Senior Director, Strategy and Impact at End Homelessness Winnipeg.

Posted: September 26, 2025 Filed Under: Events

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End Homelessness Winnipeg’s annual Gizhe Service Expo brought hundreds of people together September 12 for a day that combined practical supports with cultural ceremony.

The gathering, named Gizhe Waa Tii-Sii-Win, translated from Anishinaabemowin meaning “working with love, kindness and generosity,” featured more than 45 organizations including Resource Assistance for Youth (RaY), Manitoba Public Insurance(MPI) and Main Street Project.

In one location, guests accessed identification and documentation help, housing and wellness supports, youth programs, haircuts, footcare and a warm meal. The model helps reduce barriers for people facing housing insecurity by putting essential services side by side in a respectful and welcoming space.

“The strength of Gizhe lies in bringing so many resources into one place,” said Jackie Hunt, Senior Director of Strategy and Impact at End Homelessness Winnipeg. “It restores dignity and shows what is possible when organizations work together in respect and compassion.”

The day also placed cultural programming at its centre, with traditional throat singing, drumming and dance ceremonies, grounding the event in Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing.

End Homelessness Winnipeg thanks The Winnipeg Foundation for providing the funding for Gizhe and all the volunteers, service agencies and cultural leaders who contributed to the Expo. This is an example of how community partnerships can deliver wraparound, person-centred support rooted in Indigenous values.

Posted: August 29, 2025 Filed Under: Community Blog, Media Releases

End Homelessness Winnipeg is launching the search for our next Chief Executive Officer.

As an Indigenous-led organization, we are guided by Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Being, and Doing in our work to end chronic houselessness and build a community where everyone belongs.

The CEO will play a critical role in advancing our 2025–2030 Strategic Plan, strengthening partnerships, and leading with integrity, vision, and accountability.

View the full posting and apply here

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