Dear Minister Selinger,

On behalf of the Manitoba Community Economic Development Network, I am writing to ask the province to allocate resources in this year's budget for the creation of 300 new units of social housing in Manitoba. The Right to Housing Coalition, of which we are members, is asking the province to commit to the creation of 300 units of social housing each year for the next five years, in order to begin to eliminate the shortage of rent-geared-to-income (RGI) housing in our Province. The Right to Housing Coalition believes that this is a reasonable and minimal target for the province to commit to, considering that the Canadian Housing and Rehabilitation Association estimates that Manitoba requires 1000 units per year, for the next five years, to eliminate the deficit of housing units.

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