Ottawa is preparing to spend $4.3 billion over seven years to help improve Indigenous housing, while also giving more to help communities contend with the harmful past of residential schools.
Investing more this year in housing for Indigenous Peoples is priority in the agreement the federal minority Liberal government struck with the New Democrats, as well as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's re-election platform last year.
That includes $2.4 billion for on-reserve housing over five years. The funding timeline for Inuit housing, at $845 million, and Metis communities, at $190 million, is over seven years. The budget did not include detailed figures beyond fiscal 2026-27. The federal government set aside $40 billion in its fall economic statement to cover a historic child-welfare agreement.
The budget also addresses the ongoing search for unmarked graves at the former sites of residential schools.
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