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HOMELESS­­­NESS­­ IN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES

Across Canada, Indigenous communities are disproportionately affected by homelessness.

In cities, Indigenous communities make up an estimated 20 to 50 percent of those experiencing homelessness, although these communities make up a much smaller portion of the population.

Reasons for homelessness are often directly connected to the intergenerational trauma brought on by Canada’s dark history of colonization and abuse toward Indigenous communities.

Learn more about homelessness affecting Indigenous communities by taking the quiz from our partners at the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness.

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Homelessness is defined as:

Which of these factor(s) might increase the chance that a person will experience homelessness?

Do the majority of people who experience homelessness live on the streets?

Indigenous Peoples make up about 15% of those experiencing homelessness in Toronto, despite only making up 0.5% of the total population.

Which of these factor(s) contribute to and exacerbate Indigenous Peoples’ experiences of homelessness in Canada?

Indigenous families led by women are not at higher risk for violent and racist practices in the Canadian emergency shelters and housing systems.

Research has shown that Indigenous populations disproportionately experience inadequate health care, lower levels of education and income, and higher rates of unemployment.

Which of these represents one pathway out of homelessness?

One in 5 urban Indigenous persons is more likely to be homeless on any given night compared to a non-Indigenous person

“Indigenous homelessness is not defined as lacking a structure of habitation; rather, it is more fully described and understood through a composite lens of Indigenous worldviews” – including individuals, families, and communities being isolated from their relationships to land, kin, water, animals, cultures, languages, and identities.

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Across Canada, Indigenous communities are disproportionately affected by homelessness.

In cities, Indigenous communities make up an estimated 20 to 50 percent of those experiencing homelessness, although these communities make up a much smaller portion of the population.

Reasons for homelessness are often directly connected to the intergenerational trauma brought on by Canada’s dark history of colonization and abuse among Indigenous communities.

Learn more about homelessness affecting Indigenous communities by taking the quiz from our partners at the Homeless Hub.

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