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    Indigenous people are overrepresented among Canada's homeless population, accounting for 32% despite being only 4.9% of the total population. This is due to intergenerational trauma from colonial practices like residential schools and the Sixties Scoop, as well as modern factors such as rising housing costs and stagnant incomes that make housing unaffordable. Indigenous youth are also at high risk of homelessness due to these systemic issues perpetuating intergenerational problems. Current government initiatives fall short due to a lack of definitive goals, housing capacity, and adherence to outdated treatment models instead of the more effective Housing First approach.

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    Indigenous people are overrepresented among Canada's homeless population, accounting for 32% despite being only 4.9% of the total population. This is due to intergenerational trauma from colonial practices like residential schools and the Sixties Scoop, as well as modern factors such as rising housing costs and stagnant incomes that make housing unaffordable. Indigenous youth are also at high risk of homelessness due to these systemic issues perpetuating intergenerational problems. Current government initiatives fall short due to a lack of definitive goals, housing capacity, and adherence to outdated treatment models instead of the more effective Housing First approach.

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    A Misunderstood Problem: 3 2 % O F Homeless Are Indigenous

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    Indigenous Homelessness

    A
    Misunderstood
    problem

    32% OF
    HOMELESS ARE CAUSES OF
    INDIGENOUS OVERREPRESEN
    TATION
    Although Indigenous people only
    account for 4.9% of the Colonial practices such as the
    population in Canada, 32% of Sixties Scoop and residential
    homeless individuals are schools are connected, but two
    Indigenous. direct factors contributing to
    This is due to many compounding the issue include:
    factors, all of which must be The need for housing fell,
    addressed to solve the issue of causing the development of
    overrepresentation.
    low-income housing to stop.
    (Leach, 2010)
    Eventually, the need for
    housing exceeded available
    housing. The costs associated
    TRAUMA with housing have drastically
    THROUGH THE rose while income has not done
    so in equal amounts.
    GENERATIONS
    (Greater Victoria Coalition to
    End Homelessness, 2020)
    Intergenerational trauma and the
    effects of colonialism can still be felt
    to this day. One of the most DIFFERENT
    impactful effects that contributes to
    FORMS
    homelessness is the economic boom
    There are other types of homelessness
    which caused housing prices to rise aside from physical such as:
    and incomes to remain largely

    unchanged, making it even more Historic Displacement: Displacement


    difficult to find and maintain housing from traditional lands due to
    residential schools and colonialism
    (Ansloos et al., 2021)
    giving a sense of disconnect from their
    ancestors

    Spiritual Disconnection:
    Feeling disconnected from traditional
    INDIGENOUS Indigenous beliefs

    YOUTH "Going Home":


    HOMELESSNESS Indigenous people moving back to the
    reserve may be seen as outsiders by
    those that grew up on the reserve
    After receiving 1103 self-report (Homeless Hub, 2017)

    surveys from homeless youth,


    30% of them identified as
    Indigenous. Not only are there GOVERNMENT
    systemic issues that cause INITIATIVES
    Indigenous youth to be considered Current initiatives fall short
    as a higher risk of homelessness, on resolving the issue due
    the issues they face currently to a lack of definitive goal,
    perpetuate these problems making housing capacity, and the
    future generations also more current model of treatment
    susceptible to homelessness. used.
    (Kidd et al., 2019) The current model of

    treatment forces individuals
    to abstain from drugs
    before housing, however,
    the new Housing First
    model allows for immediate
    housing with subsequent
    addiction aids.
    (Leach, n.d.)

    For more information on this topic visit: www.homelesshub.ca

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