Municipal leaders press Freeland for direct funding for urban Indigenous housing during annual gathering of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sits beside Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Chrystia Freeland before speaking to members of caucus on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Jan. 23, 2020.The mayors of Canada’s biggest cities are pressing the federal government to lay out a path to help house urban Indigenous people as part of a larger push to address homelessness in this country.
Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson, chair of the group’s big city mayors’ caucus, says the country’s hot housing market was of concern for municipal leaders seeing middle-class families unable to afford a house, and people lower down the income scale unable to find an affordable rental unit.Iveson says caught in the housing crunch are Indigenous people living in urban centres who are already more likely to be homeless.
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