The Manitoba government has invested $24.4 million in the purchase and renovation of a new transitional housing complex in Winnipeg, as part of Your Way Home: Manitoba’s Plan to End Chronic Homelessness.
The seven-storey, 87,000-square-foot building is being converted into transitional housing and, once fully operational, will provide accommodation for up to 118 people experiencing homelessness or living in encampments.
The building’s third and fourth floors opened last month, creating 42 new transitional housing spaces, according to a government release. The first residents moving into the facility are people who previously lived at the former shelter located at 190 Disraeli Fwy., which was operated by the Indigenous-led organization N’Dinawemak.
Work on the remaining residential floors is expected to be completed this fall, at which point the facility will reach its full capacity.
Transitional housing is designed to give people experiencing homelessness a stable place to live while they access the services and support needed to move toward permanent housing.
Residents at the new facility will receive individualized, trauma-informed and recovery-focused support aimed at strengthening long-term housing stability and helping prevent a return to homelessness, the release said.
