Report calling on the government to help transform Winnipeg’s inner-city [Video]

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) is highlighting the need for a major transformation of social and economic justice in Winnipeg’s inner-city.

On Monday, the organization released this year’s “State of the Inner City Report,” which includes the following calls to action:

– Investment in the social, economic and physical infrastructure of the inner-city; 

– The convening of a table of Indigenous and community leaders to identify strategies to address the crises in the inner-city.

“We know what the problems are, we know what the solutions are too,” said Sarah Cooper, assistant professor in city planning at the University of Manitoba

“This is more of a call to action to governments, to federal, provincial and municipal governments, to invest in the inner-city and also for Indigenous and community leaders to direct that investment.”

The report goes on to say there are several crises in Winnipeg’s inner-city, including poverty, housing …