Meeka Atagootak says the house in Pond Inlet on Nunavut’s Baffin Island that she shares with her children and grandchildren is “unlivable” 12 years after a water truck hit and damaged it.
Atagootak is one of thousands of Inuit facing housing issues in Inuit Nunangat – the Inuit homeland in Canada comprising communities inA recent report from Statistics Canada indicates the housing crisis there has improved little over the past five years and, in some cases, has worsened. A 2017 report from the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples detailed the severity of the housing crisis in Inuit Nunangat and called on the federal government to provide stable, long-term funding, among other measures.in several communities, including holes in walls, sewage problems and crumbling floors.
Living in poor housing conditions has been linked to the spread of disease, chronic illness, poor mental health and family violence, and can contribute to poor socio-economic outcomes. A 2019 study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health found it to be a factor in the disproportionately high rates of tuberculosis among Inuit.
The 2022 federal budget promised $150 million between 2022 and 2024 to support affordable housing and related infrastructure in the North, including $60 million each to N.W.T. and Nunavut. It also included $845 million over seven years for housing in Inuit communities and plans to co-develop and launch a northern, urban and rural Indigenous housing strategy.
Housing NWT said since it partnered with the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation in 2018, 34 new public housing units have been constructed in the Inuvialuit region. And over the past three years, it completed major repairs and renovations to 56 units. The housing authority and Inuvialuit Regional Corporation are currently working on a housing strategy.
Gee What a surprise
Weird, when my house needs updates, I am the one on the hook to pay for it.
Plenty of money and resources to support an American Proxy War none for First Nations. As Biden says the prove is in the Jell-O.
I have enough trouble supporting myself and my family under Trudeau's destructive policies, never mind supporting anyone else.
Thank you, Trudeau. People in Canada no longer rent a house or apartment. They rent a room to share in a house where every room has been rented out to multiple occupants. Most share kitchen and bathroom space with multiple occupants. It's dreadful
Things are probably not going to be great for indigenous communities as long as they are remote and not economically productive.
Maybe they're asking for more than we can give?
What are they doing with the funding they receive?
But Justin Trudeau said...