A new coalition is calling on the federal government to invest $6 billion in its upcoming budget to develop an urban, rural and northern Indigenous housing strategy.
The National Urban Rural and Northern Indigenous Housing Coalition, which represents Indigenous housing providers across Canada, said there's a need to increase the housing supply by 73,000 units.
The federal government allocated $300 million in its 2022 budget to co-develop an Indigenous housing strategy, but the coalition said that's inadequate. It pointed to a 2022 report from the National Housing Council that called for at least $6.3 billion to be spent on Indigenous housing between 2022 and 2024.
"We can continue to spend more and more money on backlogged hospital emergency rooms, more money on ambulances, more money on incarceration, or we can invest in preventive measures like safe and affordable housing with the supports that people need," Marchand said.
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