Housing Department
Contact Information:
Cheryl Starr, Housing Coordinator
Phone: 204 783 5000 ext 5
Email: Housing@spenceneighbourhood.
Jasmine, Homelessness Outreach Mentor
Phone: 204 999-4485
Email: row@spenceneighbourhood.org
Jasmyne, Rental Safety Coordinator
Phone: 204-998-5993
Email: rentalsafety@spenceneighbourhood.org
Mailbox Services:
If you have a community mailbox with SNA, mailboxes have been moved to the MERC at 430 Langside. You can pick up your mail from 10:00 am – 3:00 pm, Monday-Friday
Description of services offered by the SNA Housing Department:
Housing at SNA uses the housing first model and approaches the housing challenges with a holistic lens. Individuals are assisted in finding housing, keeping it, maintaining it, and becoming a part of the community. The task often entails working with or in the following areas: EIA advocacy, RTB rules and regulations, home improvement grants, mediation, safety, promoting new housing developments in the neighbourhood, employment programs, volunteer programs, rooming houses, bed bug remediation, health, connecting community to resource… and many others. It has been over twenty-five years that the housing committee along with various community members have worked on housing projects in Spence! Click to see highlights with a brief description.
Our Team
Our staff work together to connect individuals to the resources they require for housing.
The Housing Coordinator provides support to all housing staff and ensures implementations of projects highlighted in the Housing Plan are done. The coordinator ensures that the connections between stakeholders are made and provides venues for the voices to be heard.
Housing Coordinator: Cheryl Starr
Housing Incentives
The various financial opportunities are available to the Spence Neighbourhood.
Rooming House Projects-Spence Neighbourhood
CCPA Report Rooming Houses to Rooming Homes:
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/rooming-houses-rooming-homes
IUS Report Winnipeg’s Vanishing Rooming Houses:
https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/ius/docs/publications/ius-inbrief-rooming-houses.pdf
Rooming Houses to Rooming Homes Documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W08O3PioIkk
The Homeless Outreach Mentor assists individuals that are homeless by offering continuous support in finding a place to live until they feel they are ready to do it alone. Connections and networks are made around participants’ needs.
Homelessness Outreach Mentor: Jasmine
Provides advice on:
- Employment & Income Assistance (EIA)
- Accessing emergency shelters
- Food security: where and when to get meals
- Systems navigation help, referrals to other supports and housing agencies
- Continuing support for existing HOM clients
The Rental Safety Coordinator assists community members who are having issues with their landlords – and landlords who are having issues with their tenants. This mediator position ensures that all parties understand their rights and responsibilities and provides support with the goal of keeping people housed.
Rental Safety Coordinator: Jasmyne
Provides advice on:
- Residential Tenancies Branch (RTB)
- Working with your landlord
- Hydro arrears
- Bed bugs
- Connect2 Voicemail system
- Systems navigation help, referrals to other supports and housing agencies
- Continuing support for existing Rental Safety clients
The Homeless Outreach Workers program (HOW) provides help to WE24 youth participants that are experiencing homelessness.
Homeless Outreach Worker: Jefferson
Provides advice on:
HOW workers provide assistance to youth in accessing income and resource support, finding and securing a place to live, build relationships with landlords, and advocate on behalf of the participant to various service providers if needed. In addition the HOW program offers wrap around support to participants for a period of 6 months after securing housing. This includes; monthly home visits, teaching them life skills such as: budgeting, grocery shopping, problem solving, scheduling and/or accompanying the individual to appointments, communication skills, personal health and wellness skills, as well as connecting the individual to other community supports as needed to help the individual to transition from homeless to housed and gain a good quality of life and independence.
To do an intake with our HOW workers you must be between the ages of 18-29 and be a participant of our WE 24 Safe Space.
Please note that if case load is full, you will be put on a waiting list or referred to another housing agency.
Need assistance from us?
If you live in the Spence neighbourhood, we can help you with advice about your housing situation and systems navigation! If you live outside of the Spence neighbourhood, please check the Housing Supports Outside of Spence page for services in your area.
How to contact the Residential Tenancies Branch:
Call or email to make an appointment.
Phone: 204-945-2476
Email: rtb@gov.mb.ca
Up-to-date information: https://www.gov.mb.ca/cca/rtb/
How to contact EIA:
Contact the EIA call centre.
Phone: 204-948-2888 (7:00 am-7:00 pm, Mon – Fri)
Email: eia@gov.mb.ca
Up-to-date information: https://www.gov.mb.ca/fs/eia/
Common EIA Forms:
Address:
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