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Lord Selkirk Park and National Housing

national housing: Last week, the Canadian Housing and Renewal Association National Congress on Housing and Homelessness also met in Winnipeg to talk about housing strategies, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Canada is one of the very few advanced industrialized countries in the world that does not have a national housing strategy, and for low-income people in particular the consequences are severe, and sometimes deadly. Photo Store Homelessness has been in the news following the tragic slayings of three homeless people in Winnipeg. Yet there are solutions, as evidenced by three tours organized by last week national conference to the Lord Selkirk Park housing complex in Winnipeg North End. Lord Selkirk Park opened in 1967 as part of Canada urban-renewal strategy. Each of the tours was sold out and had a waiting list of people wanting to see Lord Selkirk Park and discover what has been done there to make it such a success. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.