OTTAWA, Ont.-The National Urban Rural and Northern Indigenous Housing Coalition, an organization representing Indigenous housing providers across the country, recently called on the federal government to commit $6 billion in the 2023 federal budget to meet its commitment to develop an Urban, Rural and Northern (URN) Indigenous Housing Strategy and create Canada's first-ever National Indigenous Housing Centre.
The Coalition, formed in November 2022, is a response to the lack of specific and sufficient federal housing support for the 80 percent of Indigenous households living in urban, rural and...
