A Tip Of The Hat In The Direction Of Indigenous Thriving
There are two very different articles linked to this post about public support for Indigenous initiatives in the United States.
The first article is about projects by American Indians and...
A Gateway To Homelessness In British Columbia And How To Close It
A quagmire is the word one authority uses to describe the process to access publicly funded supports that are due to Indigenous people with diverse abilities. Failing to navigate...
Canada’s Housing Promises To Indigenous People: Why No Action?
When it launched in 2017, Canada's National Housing Strategy vowed to do right by Indigenous People. The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's landing page for the National Housing Strategy...
Speaking Up About How Housing Systems Are Failing Us
Living in Canada's arctic territories is not easy. Housing is scarce, in poor condition and often very crowded. Housing advocates have been speaking to the government, the media and...
An Ethical Inquiry To Improve Research About Indigenous People
Let's be clear up front. This post is not going to be for everyone. It's about a rather boring aspect of research: ethics and research methods. At the same...
Affordable Housing – Rethinking The Magnet Concept
When new affordable housing is under consideration, community leaders can be apprehensive, fearing that the new housing will be a magnet. They worry that the housing will attract more...
Community Land Trusts – A Route To Permanent And Deeply Affordable Housing
When it comes to adding housing that will be deeply affordable housing and permanent, community land trusts are in a good position to step up. When a community land...
Indigenous Leaders Turned COVID’s Gloomy Prospect Into A Toronto Opportunity
In Canada, witnessing decision after decision to undo measures that were put in place during COVID is cause for head scratching. The country's 2020 Community Emergency Response Benefit (CERB)...
Remote Australia: Poor Housing, Over-Crowding = Disease/Death
Why is it important to have a universal definition of human rights such as the U.N.'s Human Right to Adequate Housing?
For those of us fortunate enough to live in...
Supporting Vulnerable Populations To Thrive By Changing Housing And Health Care Systems
This post starts with an article from New South Wales, Australia, where statistics about levels of domestic violence during COVID have just been published. As the reporter notes, the...
Making Winnipeg A Safer Place To Live
"Winnipeggers deserve to feel safe where they live work and play" These remarks were made during a recent funding announcement by the provincial government in Manitoba.
Some of the funding...
Indigenous Knowledge And Experience Central To Housing, Homelessness And Urban Development
Katłįà (Catherine) Lafferty is a member of the Yellowknives First Nation. In an article in Policy Options, she illustrates how an aboriginal-led approach to child welfare would have made...
UN Calls On Canada To Help Its Children By Upping Its Housing Game
The UN regularly reviews Canada's performance on human rights issues. Most recently, the rights of the child have been the subject of scrutiny. In the review process, Canada reports...
Indigenous Housing – Doing Better
Housing conditions in remote communities have been a personal issue for this writer, ever since working in Canada's north in the 1970's. At the time, the housing built for...
O Canada! The True North Weak And Diseased . . .
The headline above is a line from Canada's national anthem, unfortunately adjusted to circumstances.
The impetus for such an outrageous(?) modification comes from a book review in nature. The review...
Does A Papal Apology Bode Well For Indigenous Housing In Canada?
On April 1, 2022, Pope Francis apologized for the harms caused to children in the residential school system in Canada. The apology came at the end of a week...
Pricey Climate Broil: Global Crisis With Different Strokes For Different Folks
For the hot, hot, hot citizens of Phoenix, Arizona, climate change is cranking up the weather thermostat. A recent report describes rising local temperatures as "expensive," and outlines some...
Existing Data Illuminates Indigenous Experiences Of Homelessness
Indigenous people make up 0.5% of the Canadian population, yet are a much higher proportion of the people who experience homelessness in Canada. New research uses available public data...
Adequate Housing For Indigenous People In Canada – A Way Forward
One of the responsibilities of Canada's National Housing Council is keeping Canada moving along in its commitment to the human right to adequate housing. The Council has made the...
Waiting For A Canadian Indigenous Housing Strategy . . . And Waiting
Compared with their numbers in the community, Indigenous people are consistently over-represented in the point-in-time counts that help monitor progress on ending homelessness. The lack of adequate housing is...
Canadian Arctic Housing: Cozy On The Outside. Now Have A Look Inside
In the fall of 2020, Mumilaaq Qaqqaq, the Member of Parliament for Canada's far north, visited eight communities. Her purpose: to see the housing conditions of her constituents.For an...
Green New Deal For Housing Part 5: Indigenous Approaches
This is the final post covering the Tyee's five part series about a green new deal for housing. The Tyee is based in Vancouver, where high prices are making...
Is There Room In Your Country For “Ella’s Law?”
In the United Kingdom, a court finds that a child's death has been caused by air pollution.
In Nunavut, easternmost of Canada's arctic territories, dangerous public housing is on its...
Breaking The Link Between Incarceration And Homelessness In Australia
Toward the end of the 20th century, when people experiencing homelessness became more visible, the programs to help them leave the streets quickly became overwhelmed. People asked, "where did...
Canadian First Nation Seeks Sovereignty Through Housing
Indigenous people who are resident in modern nations may value their often unasked for (and sometimes unwanted) citizenship. But many, if not most, harbour a strong sense of maintaining...
Transforming Canada’s 10 Year Housing Plan
Indigenous people in Canada are over-represented in the population of people experiencing homelessness. A lack of adequate housing contributes to this situation. The Indigenous Housing Caucus of the Canadian...
Aussie Power Project Turns Social Housing Tenants Into Sun Worshipers
Dismissing a useful future for social housing these days works most dramatically when raising the spectre of high rise projects. President Trump, as part of his 2020 campaign, has...
Working Together To End Homelessness
In Ontario, many agencies, governments and funders work to help people leave homelessness. They need to be able to work closely together to provide an effective and seamless service....
A COVID Count Of Zero?
The BBC has uncovered a remarkable piece of news that has yet to be widely covered in the Canadian media: there have been zero cases of COVID-19 in Canada's...
Updated – Indigenous And Homeless? 12 Reasons Why Affordable Housing Alone Is Not Enough
Jesse Thistle describes the evolution of the Indigenous definition of homelessness and shares some of his own experience in this video conversation with Jayne Malenfant and Stephen Gaetz. Jayne...
Canada’s National Inquiry Of Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women
The reports linked at the end of this post document the work of the national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada. They are based...
Winnipeg Improves On “Housing First”
Researchers at the University of Winnipeg's Institute for Urban Studies (IUS) have just completed a report about providing Housing First services to indigenous people experiencing homelessness.
The report firmly supports...
Co-living: What Is It? Who Does It? Why Bother?
What is it?
Co-living, in its broadest sense, means living with others. Since society has several traditions that involve co-living, not the least of which is the family, its currently...
Updated: A Housing Way To Fight Aboriginal Tuberculosis
This article was first published in March 2018 and is updated with new information released on January 24 and March 8, 2019.
Poor housing conditions in Canada's northern territory of...
Can Intersectionality Pave A Pathway To Affordable Housing In Minneapolis?
Intersectionality. Affordability. Big words to do battle with homelessness. But from the bottom of the deepest trenches in that battle, the individuals involved are aware of the very real...
Tiny Homes Brings Affordable Privacy And Dignity To First Nations People
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...
Aboriginal And Homeless? 12 Reasons Why Affordable Housing Alone Is Not Enough.
A Canadian definition of homelessness neither mirrored nor explained the aboriginal experiences of Jesse Thistle. He decided that a definition that reflected the aboriginal experience was an essential foundation...
BC Nurses Broaden Their Vision Of Healthcare For Vulnerable People
Not all health care professionals feel that health care dollars should flow to the huge and hugely expensive medical industry which gives them their livelihood.
In Canada, the British Columbia Nurses...
