Healthy Indigenous communities require healthy housing

We know from long experience that the established order of housing financing and governance is actively harming Indigenous family. What then is the plan for the coming $4.3-billion investment?

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s 2022 budget focused heavily on housing, including $4.3-billion to address the long known disaster that is Indigenous community housing. An investment of this size has the potential to both function as a stimulus to Indigenous communities, nurture capacity building, and create generative and sustainable approaches to housing security, writes Jordan Koe.

Opinion

BY JORDAN KOE

September 5, 2022

During COVID, across Canada Indigenous communities were instructed to stay home in housing conditions known to be actively hazardous to Indigenous families health. Two pandemic years, and a national tragedy or two later, the Liberal government unveiled its

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