Ottawa is providing $287.1 million to address the urgent housing needs of Indigenous peoples living in urban, rural, and northern communities.
Funding will be delivered by the National Indigenous Collaborative Housing Incorporated, using a for Indigenous, by Indigenous approach.
Formed in January, the NICHI is made up of a coalition of over 50 Indigenous-led housing organizations from coast-to-coast.
It will prioritize projects which address immediate unmet needs, with a focus on projects with budgetary shortfalls already underway or set to begin.
Of the new funding, roughly $5.6 million comes from Budget 2023, while the remaining $281.5 million is from Budget 2022.
That will take from the $300 million earmarked for the creation of an Urban, Rural and Northern Indigenous Housing Strategy.
Meanwhile, the rest of the 2022 funding will go to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation to support co-development of that plan.
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