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Winnipeg’s inner city is in crisis mode, according to advocates who say poverty, safety concerns and crumbling infrastructure are all to blame.

While there have been efforts made to rehabilitate the area, a new report says “more profound transformation is needed to achieve genuine social and economic justice.”

The poverty, trauma is now so visible it can’t be ignored and it’s escalating," the report’s lead researcher, Sarah Cooper, told CBC Information Radio host Marcy Markusa.

However, that funding has lagged over the past decade, exacerbated by cuts to provincial spending on social support “and it’s really starting to show,” she added.

“And that might be a low estimate because those numbers come from the 2021 census, which looked at 2020, which was of course during the pandemic when the poverty rate was actually cut in half across Canada because of the benefits that the government paid out,” she said.

"A large chunk of the challenges that are in the inner city are a direct result of colonialism, of residential schools, of governance that’s been imposed.

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