people
A city is as vibrant as its citizens. How people relate to each other – helping, working or playing together – make a city what it is. City Hall funds community programming, sports fields, and the many arts and culture events that bring Winnipeggers together, and it can do more. City Hall can and should take leadership on accessibility, affordable housing, poverty reduction, and neighbourhood revitalization.
a. Increase funding for the Winnipeg Arts Council and City Museums and make creative sector development a priority.
b. Collaborate between Winnipeg’s safety and crime prevention stakeholders to offer proactive and social development types of crime prevention.
c. Commit to affordable housing with increased support, coordination and resources for affordable housing and neighbourhood renewal corporations in Winnipeg.
d. Create a plan to reduce poverty, which can include activities like expanding current Aboriginal employment programs and increasing spending to early childhood education programs as well as new initiatives such as labour market intermediaries.
a. Increase funding for the Winnipeg Arts Council and City Museums and make creative sector development a priority.
- Manitobans for the Arts is organizing ArtsVote to put arts and culture on the election agenda
- For more suggestions on how The City can better support economic development through arts and culture, read the Arts section of the Alternative Municipal Budget
b. Collaborate between Winnipeg’s safety and crime prevention stakeholders to offer proactive and social development types of crime prevention.
- For more on Crime Prevention through Social Development see the Policing section of the Alternative Municipal Budget
- The Council of Women of Winnipeg advocated for reform of City of Winnipeg By-law No./2008 to increase the size of numbering on front and back buildings and structures and of letters on street signs, to improve visibility; and place easily readable street signs consistently at all intersections in the city of Winnipeg.
c. Commit to affordable housing with increased support, coordination and resources for affordable housing and neighbourhood renewal corporations in Winnipeg.
- For more on Housing and Community Renewal, read the Housing and Planning sections of the Alternative Municipal Budget
- To read more about the Right to Housing Coalition's call for Municipal Support for affordable housing, read their backgrounder or visit their website
d. Create a plan to reduce poverty, which can include activities like expanding current Aboriginal employment programs and increasing spending to early childhood education programs as well as new initiatives such as labour market intermediaries.
- To read more about Aboriginal employment programs, early childhood education and labour market intermediaries, read the Employment section of the Alternative Municipal Budget
- To learn more about a Poverty Reduction Committee of Council and Plan, read CCEDNet's policy statement and the SPCW backgrounder