Social Assistance

social assistance: The Employment and Income Assistance EIA Advocates Network is inviting people living on social assistance or assisted living to post their photographs of the poor housing conditions they have to put up with, according to CBC. With vacancy rates in Winnipeg hovering at around one per cent, many on social assistance who get only $285 a month for housing often find themselves having to live in sub-standard units, according to contest organizers and A Winnipeg social advocacy group is holding a contest to find the worst welfare-funded housing in the city. Photos can be posted anonymously on the EIA Advocates Network's website until June 26. People living in the three places with the worst conditions will each win a $100 prize. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.