Human Resources committee  One of the challenges is that there is a complex array of needs and there is no one-size-fits-all solution that can address all of those complex needs. In terms of an indigenous housing strategy that would give significance to the experiences of indigenous people with disabilitie

Human Resources committee  Should I go first? Okay. At Home in the North, the partnership that I direct, includes 40 community partners, largely indigenous governments across the territorial north, indigenous organizations and NGOs. What I am hearing loud and clear from indigenous partners is the desire

Human Resources committee  Exactly. I think, too, it becomes a way for people who are experiencing homelessness to understand, to feel empowered and to see their efforts to maintain connections to family and friends as being something that should be supported through additional programming and wraparound s

Human Resources committee  The annual funding for social housing from the federal government has been declining since the early 1990s, as you mentioned. This has been replaced by large packages of funding that are announced on a piecemeal basis. This has been incredibly challenging for northern communities

Human Resources committee  From the Australian context, the idea of spiritual homelessness, also known as “Koori homesickness”, was very profound for both Dr. Peters—she was the co-editor with me on that volume—and me. It was a concept we talked a lot about, as chapter contributors in that book. It artic

Human Resources committee  Exactly. The way housing needs are assessed currently is based on models that are typically not designed by indigenous communities. When you look across the territorial north, for example, they come from the level of the territorial government and are defined by territorial gover

Human Resources committee  This began during my Ph.D. research, when I was looking at geographies of homelessness, in the Northwest Territories in particular. I have found, from people I was interviewing and collaborating with, who had lived experience of homelessness, that oftentimes their journeys throug

Human Resources committee  Good evening, and thank you, Mr. Chair and standing committee, for the opportunity to speak on such an important issue as urban, rural and northern indigenous housing. My name is Julia Christensen, and I hold a Canada research chair in northern governance and public policy at M