Coronavirus: A look back at 6 months of pandemic in Manitoba “Many businesses are now starting to look at their reopening plans and they’re not necessarily hiring back the workers that they thought they were going to be hiring,” said Josh Brandon, a community animator with the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg — who is currently conducting research on housing.Now, the lack of protections for renters and the precarity of low-income employment may mean people with low incomes and little money in the bank will have difficulty navigating the ongoing public health crisis and economic recovery — however long it may last.“We have a public health crisis and overlapping that is an economic crisis.