Current Indigenous housing approach has ‘demonstrably failed,’ federally appointed council says

The current approach to funding Indigenous housing has “demonstrably failed” households living in urban, rural and northern areas, the federally appointed National Housing Council says — using its first recommendations to the government to pitch a countrywide overhaul.

It calls for the creation of a new decision-making body, which it envisions as working alongside existing programs to create safe and affordable housing for Indigenous people outside of those siloes. Ontario is in a better position than most provinces and territories, Maracle said, with the report noting it had a provincial body to “co-ordinate and deliver” on Indigenous housing in urban, rural and northern areas. But Thursday’s report envisions a new system that Maracle believes could more effectively and proportionately fund projects in those communities countrywide.

In Toronto, a street needs assessment last year found that while Indigenous people represent between one and 2.5 per cent of the city’s population, they represented 15 per cent of the homeless population surveyed that day. That population was also found to be more likely to have first been homeless as a child or youth, and to have gone through the foster care system.

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_VictoriaGibson Why are there so many indigenous people in provincial government programs? We’re funding the federal government and then they pass the buck off to the provinces.

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