Property Wrongs - Smith, Doug
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"By 1969 the City of Winnipeg undertook only two public housing projects: Gilbert Park and the Lord Selkirk Development. These are, in fact, the only two public housing projects in Manitoba to that date. The failure of the market to provide adequate housing for low-income Winnipeggers had been apparent since the beginning of the century. By 1919 the provision of housing had emerged as a significant issue in municipal politics. It became a proxy issue for the refighting of the 1919 General Strike at city hall. Prominent strike leaders John Queen and A.A. Heaps were leaders in the campaign for…mehr

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"By 1969 the City of Winnipeg undertook only two public housing projects: Gilbert Park and the Lord Selkirk Development. These are, in fact, the only two public housing projects in Manitoba to that date. The failure of the market to provide adequate housing for low-income Winnipeggers had been apparent since the beginning of the century. By 1919 the provision of housing had emerged as a significant issue in municipal politics. It became a proxy issue for the refighting of the 1919 General Strike at city hall. Prominent strike leaders John Queen and A.A. Heaps were leaders in the campaign for public housing at both the municipal and national level. They were opposed by members of the Citizens' Committee of One Thousand and the various successor groups: the Winnipeg Board of Trade, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Real Estate Board, proved effective opponents of public housing. The struggle for public housing was also a struggle for democracy. Up until the 1960s provincial legislation required that the sort of largescale borrowing that public housing would require be approved by a referendum in which only the city's property owners could vote. Two referendums on the issues (1935 and 1953) brought the underlying divisions to the fore and resulted in the defeat of proposals. Provincial government indifference was another stumbling block. The election of a New Democratic Party government in 1969 removed those barriers. In seven years, the NDP added 11,144 units of public housing units to 568 that existed in when it took office. Today public housing is once more under attack: vilified as poorly maintained ghettoes from which people should aspire to escape. Rather being treated as valued public assets that were the product of decades of struggle and advocacy, they are treated as embarrassing encumberments that should be sold as part of a process of turning public housing over to the private sector. The struggle to protect and expand the provision of non-profit housing is undermined by the rupture in political memory between the partial but significant victories of the 1970s (and the even more distant struggle to achieve those improvements) and the current situation."--
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Doug Smith is a Winnipeg writer and author of numerous books on political and social issues, and Manitoba labour and political history: including Stickin' to the Union: Local 2224 versus John Buhler, As Many Liars: The Story of the 1995 Manitoba Vote-Splitting Scandal, and Joe Zuken: Citizen and Socialist, Consulted To Death: How Canada's Workplace Health and Safety System Fails Workers and As Many Liars: The Story of the 1995 Manitoba Vote-Rigging Scandal. He has written for several magazines and newspapers including This Magazine, Maclean's and the Winnipeg Sun. He has also worked as producer at CBC radio for documentaries and the CBC Radio program, Ideas, and worked as an editorial consultant on a number of public inquiries including the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.