Culturally supportive housing is essentially housing that requires acknowledgement of indigenous—first nations, Métis and Inuit—cultural needs and accessibility within housing. That starts with design, so how it's put together, how the space is created, what's available in the space, how people access each other and how people create community. It goes all the way to how we interact with the tenants and the services that are provided to the tenants to ensure that there's a connection to create the opportunity for home and that sense of belonging, which I think is a really important part of indigenous ways of knowing across the spectrum—of whatever way that is.
For me, culturally supportive housing is indigenous led and indigenous owned, and indigenous culture is present in every brick, wood, carpet and space for indigenous people with diverse needs and indigenous people who need a place to live. That's what culturally supportive housing is.