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Quint Development Corporation: “New tallies found at least 1,931 people are experiencing homelessness in Saskatoon this year — that's 432 more than 2024. So let's get our facts straight about this urgent issue.” 🤝
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"If you are a Regina resident and care about community grants, community centres, cultural events and the arts, please consider signing this petition before December 10.
This is meant to inform Councillors during the December budget meetings. I don't know anyone in that circle who is in favour of gutting community initiatives or funding, but everything is on the list provided by City Administration. Make your voice heard. There's more at stake than grants and centres.
"I am writing to voice my concern over a potential forecasted cut of 18.5% to operating funds or a negative 5% mill rate in the proposed 2026-2027 Regina budget. If Council approves these measures, it will cripple Recreation and Cultural Services, among other City areas."
www.change.org/p/stop-the-cuts-to-community-grants-associations?signed=true&fbclid=IwY2xjawOYPmNl...
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🚨The proposed Regina City Council budget threatens essential community services and risks cuts to public safety: emergency fire services, transit, community events/grants and local programs that keep neighbourhoods strong.
We can stop this! Join our People’s Budget Meeting on Saturday December 6th @ 5 PM
Speakers will give an overview of the budget, areas the community wants to see bolstered, and break-out sessions to discuss how we can fight for the budget our communities need.
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“Peter Gilmer of the Regina Anti-Poverty Ministry said “rents have been out of control in Saskatchewan and tenants need protection. Saskatchewan is an outlier when it comes to rent control legislation. Eight out of 10 Canadians live in jurisdictions with rent control, but we do not."
Gilmer said difficulty covering the cost of rent has frequently presented to his office during the course of 2025. “We see so much avoidable human suffering that could be prevented by preventing excessive rents, and that is why we’ve been strong proponents of rent control legislation for many years,” he said.
“But it’s not just low-income on income security programs that we work with— people who have found themselves paying most of their incomes as many cases towards their rent, and sometimes finding themselves unhoused because they can’t keep up with the cost of rent. It is also… an issue for seniors income. It’s an issue for students who are trying to combine school costs with rising rent, and it’s a concern for working families. It would take a full-time wage of $22 an hour for an individual working person to be able to afford a one-bedroom apartment in our largest cities, and still be able to cover all of their other basic needs, but this is a concern that we’re hearing about across the province.”
When asked what the point was of introducing the bill given that the Sask Party has said they would not support rent control, Beck said it is to "raise the voices of the 300,000 renters that we have in this province. and the concerns that they have."
"I know that the Sask Party have been very dismissive of those concerns. We are not. We understand that the cost of living, concerns about affordability, continue to top the number one concern of people right across this province. This is a measure we could take, that the government should take today to offer some relief to people that are struggling."
Government remains opposed to rent control
During Question Period Monday the NDP led off with the issue, but Finance Minister Jim Reiter reiterated in his answers that the government remained opposed to rent control.
Reiter pointed to CMHC numbers showing Saskatchewan year over year for housing starts having a 71 per cent increase, while "NDP BC with rent control" had a reduction of 21 per cent, he said.
"That clearly shows everywhere this is been tried, Mr. Speaker, rent controls end up doing the exact opposite, Mr. Speaker, because investment dries up. People, corporations, individual people that rent houses and rent houses out, don't want to be somewhere where there's rent control, Mr. Speaker. It dries up investment and the exact opposite of what they're trying to achieve happens."
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Regina Anti-Poverty Ministry Not sure if you're aware, but there's a lot of bullying and harassment going on in the comments on this post. Could I ask you to take some action, please?
Guaranteed annual income is the answer to all these inequities while saving the huge adminstrative costs of Social Services bureaucracies
Has the NDP directed the voices of the 300,000 renters to the www.saskatchewan.ca/government/government-structure/boards-commissions-and-agencies/office-of-res... and/or the Canadian Centre for Housing Rights? Just asking respectfully as I’ve started to read from the site above, the rules and regulations for all landlord/tennant scenarios, and depending on each personal situation will depend on the avenues that person can take. Are the women that spoke up living in the same rental complex? Is it a private, co-op, or government low income housing building?
Thank You!
The Regina Anti-poverty Ministry is thrilled to announce the receipt of $15,000 from the G. Murray and Edna Forbes Foundation at the South Saskatchewan Community Foundation. These funds support the ongoing work of the Anti-poverty Ministry advocating for and with people living in poverty, educating on social and economic justice issues, and providing direct assistance to those facing poverty.
Thank You!
The Regina Anti-poverty Ministry is thrilled to announce the receipt of $15 000 from the G. Murray and Edna Forbes Foundation at the South Saskatchewan Community Foundation. These funds support
the ongoing work of the Anti-poverty Ministry advocating for and with people living in poverty, educating on social and economic justice issues, and providing direct assistance to those facing poverty.