A tiny home like this can offer an affordable solution to a homeless indigenous person.
Homelessness is a disease in Canadian indigenous communities that afflicts many. It brings with it a host of mental and physical complications, such as alcoholism and severe depression.
Many northern First Nations communities are anything but wealthy, and building affordable housing is a strain on resources. Land, fortunately, is not the crippling cost it can be outside of First Nations territories.
A pilot project to build affordable tiny homes for single people at Nak’azdli Whut’en First Nation in north-central B.C. is showing signs of it can be a successful way of combatting homelessness.
Read more at CBC NEWS: ‘It means a lot to me’: 1 year later, tiny homes in this B.C. community are making a big difference
