{"id":4968,"date":"2025-11-01T01:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T04:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/11\/01\/manitoba-homelessness-advisers-departure-to-lead-real-estate-trust-a-positive-development-premier\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T01:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T04:15:09","slug":"manitoba-homelessness-advisers-departure-to-lead-real-estate-trust-a-positive-development-premier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/11\/01\/manitoba-homelessness-advisers-departure-to-lead-real-estate-trust-a-positive-development-premier\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba homelessness adviser\u2019s departure to lead real estate trust a \u2018positive development\u2019: premier"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ManitobaManitoba\u2019s premier says he\u2019s confident the departure of the province\u2019s homelessness strategy adviser to lead a real estate investment trust will help get more housing built.Wab Kinew says Tessa Blaikie Whitecloud will still work in alignment with province following resignationArturo Chang \u00b7 CBC News \u00b7 Posted: Oct 31, 2025 7:02 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours agoListen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesTessa Blaikie Whitecloud said Thursday she is resigning as the province\u2019s senior adviser on its plan to end homelessness to become president and CEO of the Collaborative Housing Alliance Real Estate Investment Trust. (Justin Fraser\/CBC)Manitoba\u2019s premier says he\u2019s confident the departure of the province\u2019s homelessness strategy adviser to lead a real estate investment trust will help get more housing built.Premier Wab Kinew did not say much when asked Friday what led to the resignation of Tessa Blaikie Whitecloud only 10 months after taking on the senior adviser role.During an unrelated event, he told reporters simply that the opportunity to lead the Collaborative Housing Alliance REIT \u201cspoke to her.\u201d\u201dTessa is somebody that I have a ton of respect for and somebody that I\u2019m quite close to on a personal level,\u201d Kinew said.\u201dI would love if Tessa had continued to work with us going forward. To see her at a partner organization still working in alignment, in common cause to getting people out of tents and into housing units is a positive development.\u201dBlaikie Whitecloud said Thursday she had accepted a position as president and CEO of the trust, which was established by the province last year to help fill funding gaps for affordable housing.The former Siloam Mission CEO had been selected by the province to help steer the province\u2019s plans to move the estimated 700 Manitobans currently living in tent encampments into housing.The province says 100 people have been moved into housing so far.\u201dIt\u2019s maybe only one-seventh of what we need to do, and so we need to continue pushing at this pace,\u201d Kinew said.\u2019Innovative and exciting\u2019 initiativeBlaikie Whitecloud said Friday the real estate investment trust will only make the province\u2019s homelessness strategy even more effective, and that she wants to ensure it continues to be an \u201cinnovative and exciting\u201d initiative.\u201dThe REIT is the primary tool that\u2019s established right now, but we\u2019re in the process of getting a foundation set up, and there\u2019s going to be other components to that,\u201d she said. \u201cSo it\u2019s really going to be about developing an ecosystem of housing that manages to balance itself to continuously be capable of reinvesting in the units that are needed.\u201dWinnipeg Mayor Scott Gillingham said housing supply is the biggest barrier to ending homelessness.\u201dIn her new role, Tessa will be able to make a real impact in getting more affordable housing built,\u201d he said in a statement.Blaikie Whitecloud said the new position will allow her to still be part of the solution from a \u201cslightly different angle.\u201dWATCH | Homelessness strategy still on track, Kinew says:Manitoba\u2019s homelessness strategy still on track despite adviser\u2019s resignation, says premierPremier Wab Kinew says Tessa Blaikie Whitecloud\u2019s resignation after 10 months as the government\u2019s adviser on homelessness doesn\u2019t jeopardize the province\u2019s efforts to move people out of encampments.With files from Bartley Kives<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manitoba homelessness adviser\u2019s departure to lead real estate trust a \u2018positive development\u2019: premier ManitobaManitoba\u2019s premier says he\u2019s confident the departure of the province\u2019s homelessness strategy adviser to lead a real estate investment trust will help get more housing built.Wab Kinew says Tessa Blaikie Whitecloud will still work in alignment with province following resignationArturo Chang \u00b7 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,127,1],"tags":[116,126],"class_list":["post-4968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indigenous","category-manitoba","category-uncategorized","tag-indigenous","tag-manitoba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}