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Indigenous Housing: Policy and Engagement-Final Report to Indigenous Services Canada
Author(s): Native Women's Association of Canada
Publication Date: 2019
While there are some housing issues shared by Indigenous communities, each faces unique challenges in developing, constructing, and maintaining an adequate housing supply. Indigenous women additionally face gender-specific challenges in securing a safe, stable housing situation for themselves and their families, both on and off-reserve. Racialized violence disproportionately affects Indigenous women and girls in Canada, with housing issues being...
Native Women's Association of Canada
Author(s): Native Women's Association of Canada
Organization: Native Women's Association of Canada
Publication Date: 2004
Where they will put their heads down to sleep each night, whether that place is warm, healthy and safe, whether it is where they want to be, and whether it will be available and can be paid for the next night and the next month, are not worries that the majority of Canadians have. For some segments of the population however, such worries frame and plague their waking moments, and disturb or even destroy the restorative value of sleep which others...
Aboriginal Women and Homelessness: An Issue Paper
Author(s): Native Women's Association of Canada
Organization: Native Women's Association of Canada
Publication Date: 2007
Aboriginal people are over-represented in the homeless population in Canada. The City of Winnipeg, for example, has the largest Aboriginal identity population of all Canadian cities. While 8.4% of the population (55,755 people) identified themselves as Aboriginal in 2001, estimates suggest that between 60-70% of the homeless population of Winnipeg was Aboriginal. The experiences of other urban areas is similar... The experiences of homelessness i...