The West Central Women's Resource Centre Inc.

Published purpose

Through this 19-month systemic change project, West Central Women's Resource Centre will scale efforts to achieve gender-equity in access to affordable housing through public policy and systems change to advance women’s economic security in MB. Specifically, the project will scale to better meet the unique needs of all low-income women and gender-diverse people with a range of intersecting identities experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity. To do so, the project will review, develop, and recommend new public policies through organizational change on social housing for women and gender-diverse people as part of the Right to Housing (RTH) coalition. The project will also provide professional training programs to build the capacity of working group members to advocate for public policy change, and to develop and provide information and training sessions to the women and gender-diverse community members they serve. The project will also develop a public policy advocacy strategy tool kit to support the working group to implement this project and other advocacy efforts beyond the life of this project in MB.