Browsing Winnipeg Inner-City Research Alliance (WIRA) Series by Title
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Greening the Inner city: Eco-Friendly Community Development
The second WIRA Summer Institute - Greening the Inner City: Eco-friendly Community Development – was held from June 2nd to 7th 2003. The WIRA Summer Institute is designed with a number of objectives in mind. The intention ... -
Housing for Assisted Living in Inner-City Winnipeg: A Social Analysis of Housing Options for People with Disabilities
People with disabilities who have complex health and housing needs have limited housing options. Younger adults with disabilities, for example, are inappropriately placed in personal care homes with seniors when the cost ... -
Housing Intervention and Neighbourhood Development: Harnessing Change in West Broadway
During the period leading to the early 1990s the West Broadway area of inner city Winnipeg experienced many signs of neighbourhood decline, such as residential fires, housing abandonment and structural deterioration. From ... -
The Importance of Policy for Community Economic Development: A Case Study of the Manitoba Context
(2008-01-01)This Participatory Action Research project will engage community economic development and social economy actors in Manitoba in identifying policy priorities that will support the sector in building stronger communities and ... -
Lessons in Collaboration
This document contains notes used in a presentation by Tom Carter and Anita Friesen, Research Liaison Director and Community Liaison Director of the Winnipeg Inner-City Research Alliance (WIRA), respectively on the ocassion ... -
Living on Furby: Narratives of Home, Winnipeg Manitoba , 1880-2005
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2008)Explores neighbourhood change and experiences of home among the residents of one city block in what has become part of the inner-city of Winnipeg, Manitoba. -
Male Reading Teachers: Effects on Inner-city Boys
Eighteen inner-city first and second grade boys participated in a pilot study on the effect of sex of reading teacher on boys’ attitudes toward and performance in reading. Each boy participated with either a male or a ... -
The Management of Co-operatives: Developing a Postsecondary Course
(2010-01-01)This research project aims to design a course outline, syllabus, and reading package for a “Management of Cooperatives” course that will be offered at the University of Winnipeg (Faculty of Business and Economics) in the ... -
Out of the Long Dark Hallway: Voices From Winnipeg’s Rooming Houses
The purpose of this study is to critically examine rooming houses from a community-based “people and place” perspective. This approach includes surveys, in-depth interviews and a workshop. The instruments used in the study ... -
Planning [E]mergence: The Convergence of Theory and Practice Through the Collaborative Efforts of the Winnipeg Inner-City Research Alliance
An evaluation of an innovative collaborative urban research organization that builds partnerships between academics, researchers, and communities. This case study investigates the Winnipeg Inner-City Research Alliance ... -
A Profile of Income Assistance Recipients in Winnipeg’s Inner City
The objective of this study is to examine the experiences of welfare recipients with the welfare bureaucracy in the city of Winnipeg. For many inner city residents some form of income assistance is a vital part of their ... -
The Rise of the Fringe Financial Services in Winnipeg's North End: Client Experiences, Firm Legitimacy and Community-Based Alternatives
This report documents research undertaken... to examine the rise of fringe financial services in Winnipeg's North End. Fringe financial services include a variety of financial services such as loans and cheque-cashing that ... -
Rooming House: Tenant-Landlord and Community Cooperation, Spence Neighbourhood
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2005-03-01)This project examined the potential for adapting the existing West Broadway TLC principles and practices to the rooming house stock in the Spence neighbourhood. -
The Rooming Houses of Furby Street
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2008)This magazine is part of a much larger historical study, Living on Furby, Narratives ofHome. The larger study is a detailed history of one block of Furby, between Portage and Broadway, from its beginnings to the present ... -
Shared Responsibility: Building Healthy Communities in Winnipeg's North End
The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of inner-city residents and service providers and represent their ideas about building healthy communities. The term “inner city” is often associated with a variety ... -
Sustainable Financing for the Social Economy, Phases 1 and 2
(2008-01-01)This 2 phase project intends to assist organizations involved in financing social enterprises to develop and deliver financial products and services that meet the various long- and short-term financing needs of this client group. -
“There Are No Banks Here” Financial & Insurance Exclusion in Winnipeg’s North End
Financial exclusion is a matter of growing concern in Canada considering the decline in the number of mainstream bank branches in some inner-cities and the concurrent rise in the number of fringe banks. This study reports ... -
Understanding and Promoting Effective Partnerships for CED: A Case Study of SEED Winnipeg’s Partnerships
(2010-01-01)Partnerships are often assumed to be a necessary, and indeed an intrinsically useful, component of CED. But partnerships can be difficult to maintain and sometimes can constrain effective CED. This case study will examine ... -
Urban Dakota: Quality of Life Indicators Project, Phase 1 Final Report
The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) Research and Policy Development (RPD) Unit applied to the Winnipeg Inner-City Research Alliance (WIRA) to examine the urban experience of two of the First Peoples in central Canada – ... -
Voices from the Margins: Experiences of Street-Involved Youth In Winnipeg
In this study we sought to hear the voices of street-involved youth. We wanted to give them a forum through which to tell their stories. We wanted to know: 1) How they came to be involved with the street? 2) What their ...