Margaret Pfoh, the CEO of the Aboriginal Housing Management Association says the National Indigenous Collaborative Housing Incorporated was formed late last year following a lack of specific and sufficient housing support for over 80 per cent of Indigenous households living off-reserve.

Pfoh says over six billion dollars needs to be invested in addressing housing concerns for those most vulnerable in the upcoming federal budget including people living in northern and remote communities.....

“We understand that there are distinct differences in housing needs and housing crises in rural and northern communities where they have infrastructure issues, where they have resource issues, all of the supply chain issues, all of the economic impact issues that we are all experiencing.  Those are exacerbated for communities that are located in northern and rural areas and then the systemic racism between the actual urban environment is that much more exacerbated when Indigenous people need to go and find housing in the urban and northern communities.”

The federal government has currently allocated 300 million dollars to address Indigenous housing and homelessness in urban, rural, and northern areas.