Sitting outside the small, modified RV camper she's called home for eight years, all Grace Richards can think about is the first hot shower she'll soon be able to take in her new home.
Grace Richards and her sister, Darlene, will be among the first to move into the new homes built in partnership with the Conklin Métis, a small community about 350 kilometres northeast of Edmonton.Sitting outside the small, modified RV camper she's called home for eight years, all Grace Richards can think about is the first hot shower she'll soon be able to take in her new home.
"We look forward to the spring, the warmer weather, being able to stay at home. Because in the winter months, we run away from the cold into somebody else's home for the night or something," she told CTV News. Their future homes were pre-built near Lloydminster and recently transported to the new subdivision in Conklin with an anticipated move-in next month.
Both Grace and Darlene have been living in separate RVs that do not have running water or direct power, constructed with a patchwork of do-it-yourself siding and insulation.In its Closing the Infrastructure Gap 2030 report, the Assembly of First Nations found more than 157,000 new homes need to be built to address the housing crisis in Canada's Indigenous communities.
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