Churches respond to affordable housing crisis: "We want to find new ways for our building to live."

 

One thing all federal party leaders agreed on during this election is that Canada faces an affordable housing crisis. And here in Winnipeg, the provincial and local governments are trying to address the challenge of homelessness. It’s a big challenge. What can be done? 

Earlier this year, I had a chance to talk with some Lutheran church leaders in Ontario who are taking the challenge into their own hands by turning their buildings into housing—including one that turned its education wing into affordable housing, and another that sold the entire building and land. 

Read about it in my column in the Free Press.