RESTORING HOME FIRES
NO INDIGENOUS PERSON SHOULD BE HOMELESS ON THEIR OWN LAND.
INDIGENOUS HOMELESSNESS
REQUIRES A DIFFERENT
CULTURAL APPROACH
Expires March 10th Midnight MST
RESTORING HOMEFIRES MISSION
“Indigenous homelessness, from an Indigenous perspective, is about the disconnection from things like spirituality, the family, land, to each other, to cosmology, to Creator. That’s the disconnection from ‘all my relations,'” he said, referring to the Indigenous perspective on interconnectivity.
Jesse Thistle
REACHING HOME FIRES: INDIGENOUS HOMELESSNESS STRATEGY
Reaching Home: Canada’s Homelessness Strategy is a community-based program aimed at preventing and reducing homelessness across Canada. This program provides funding to urban, Indigenous, rural and remote communities to help them address their local homelessness needs.
Reaching Home supports the goals of the National Housing Strategy, in particular, to support the most vulnerable Canadians in maintaining safe, stable and affordable housing and to reduce chronic homelessness nationally by 50% by fiscal year 2027 to 2028.
Homelessness has an impact on every community in Canada. It affects individuals, families, women fleeing violence, youth, seniors, veterans and people with disabilities. In 2016, an estimated 129,000 people experienced homelessness at an emergency shelter. This is why when Reaching Home was launched in 2019, we committed $2.2 billion to tackle homelessness across the country. Since then, we have nearly doubled our commitment to nearly $4 billion over 9 years. This includes over $1.1 billion in new investments through Budgets 2021 and 2022, to further support communities in addressing homelessness for individuals and families across Canada.
Restoring Our Home Fires
Restoring Our Home Fires is asking Indigenous groups to show interest in actively working to end homelessness for Indigenous people in Edmonton. We want help with planning and communication to make sure Indigenous individuals have safe and reliable housing. Our aim is to support those without homes through different solutions like Transitional Housing, Permanent Supportive Housing, Indigenous Housing Supports, Youth Housing, After Treatment Care Housing, and Client Support Housing/Services. If you’re interested, the RFP gives details about how we’ll work together.
