Lord Selkirk Park and National Conference

Canada: Yet there are solutions, as evidenced by three tours organized the National Conference to the Lord Selkirk Park housing complex in Winnipeg North End, according to Rabble. Each of the tours was sold out and had a wait list of people wanting to see Lord Selkirk Park and discover what has been done there to make it such a success. 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. Lord Selkirk Park opened in 1967, as part of Canada Urban Renewal strategy. By the 1990s it was half empty, units were boarded up, and people who lived and worked there regularly referred to it as a "war zone." Nobody wanted to live there. The first tenants were thrilled, but by the mid-1970s the public housing complex was struggling. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.