AHMA’s Urban, Rural and Northern Indigenous Housing Strategy for BC
On January 26, 2022, AHMA release the British Columbia’s first Indigenous community led Provincial Urban, Rural and Northern Housing Strategy. Learn more about the Indigenous Housing Strategy by visiting In the News and AHMA’s press release for the event. We are still collecting feedback and welcome you to connect with us through our. AHMA Talk Box.
Lived experience & stories of extreme heat among Indigenous households in British Columbia
This report assesses the response from Indigenous housing providers and AHMA to extreme heat events. This report is the result of engagement with 16 team members from Indigenous housing & service providers across BC who have intimate knowledge and insight into the lived experience of their tenants dealing with extreme heat events in BC.
Exploring Inclusive Housing for Indigenous Peoples Living with Diverse Abilities: An Environmental Scan
AHMA’s latest report examines the accessibility of housing supports and services for Indigenous Peoples with diverse abilities in BC. Findings reveal that Indigenous-led housing is essential to reducing the gaps, barriers, and challenges Indigenous Peoples with diverse abilities face. Current systems increase the risk of the most vulnerable falling through the cracks and into a cycle of homelessness.
Annual Report 2022 / 2023
Our role and influence have been evolving rapidly since launching the Urban, Rural and Northern Indigenous Housing Strategy in early 2022. AHMA now sits on multiple For Indigenous, By Indigenous policy and advocacy tables, in BC and nationally. Our strategy is an evidence-based resource other jurisdictions can look to for guidance on Indigenous housing at every level of government.
Federal Housing Advocate’s Final Report on Encampments
The Advocate's final report on encampments in Canada calls for a National Encampments Response Plan and makes final recommendations to governments at all levels.
The Impact of Community Housing on Productivity
Community housing is more than a social good – it’s an economic necessity.
Canada is struggling through a dramatically worsening housing crisis. Millions of Canadians, particularly those with lower incomes, have been experiencing rapidly rising housing costs, driven in large part by an extreme supply shortfall. This problem isn’t isolated to specific communities, regions, or provinces.
The Role Municipalities play in Affordable Housing
Municipal leadership has a big role to play in promoting opportunities and reducing barriers to the development of safe, affordable, culturally supported housing. Prioritizing those most in need and engaging with Indigenous housing experts like AHMA helps pave the path to thriving, inclusive communities.
AHMA Articles Featured in infoLINK, a Magazine Published by BCNPHA
A Multi-Sector Approach to Ending Canada’s Rental Housing Crisis
This report provides ten recommendations focused on how the government can increase the supply of non-market housing, create the conditions for more market housing to be built and provide financial assistance to families precariously housed and at risk of falling into homelessness.
Stark Truths: Indigenous Housing Realities & Solutions in Northern, Remote Communities
This report is an eye-opening exposé on the state of housing in the North, as told by Indigenous community members who face rampant human rights violations every day in their search for safe, secure, and affordable housing.
AHMA regularly makes submissions to government to advocate for more culturally safe, trauma-informed approaches to Indigenous homelessness in BC.
Annual Report 2021/22
Click below for a comprehensive report on AHMA’s most recent activities throughout this last year. Read all the great initiatives our Members are doing and all that AHMA has accomplished over the last 12 months.
Homeless on Homelands: Upholding Housing as a Human Right for Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit, and Gender-Diverse People, 2022
Authored by the National Indigenous Feminist Housing Working Group, AHMA provided comments and research to strengthen the claim that Indigenous women, girls, Two-spirit, and gender-diverse people are experiencing some of the most egregious right to housing violations across Canada.
Corporate investment in housing linked to unaffordable rents, evictions, and long-term care deaths: study
Assessing the Internal Capacity of Urban-Indigenous Housing Providers BC, 2021
This study prepared by Natalie Cappe aims to yield political action to address urban-Indigenous housing needs in the province of British Columbia. The project was designed and conducted in collaboration with AHMA and the University of British Columbia’s Housing Research Collaborative and endeavours to situate those with a nuanced and first-hand perspective on Indigenous Social Housing at the forefront of the conversation.
Indigenous Housing Management: A Comparative Evaluation of On Reserve and Off Nation Housing Programs, 2021
This study was funded through Mitacs Accelerate internship conducted June 2021 - September 2022, in partnership with AHMA, Housing Research Collaborative of the School of Community and Regional Planning, and the University of British Columbia. The report presents key findings from a 4-month study exploring the gap between the on-/off-reserve nation housing through two funding streams. Section 95 and the Urban Native Housing Program (serving urban Indigenous populations)
Annual Report 2020-2021
Click below to see a comprehensive report on AHMAs most recent activities throughout the preceding year. From our members accomplishments to every Indigenous community lead initiative from AHMA.
See our comprehensive reports on AHMA’s most activities throughout the preceding years. From our members accomplishments to every Indigenous community lead initiative from AHMA.
Urban Indigenous Housing in BC: Municipal response through housing policies and plans
AHMA’s new study was undertaken in partnership with the Housing Research Collaborative of the School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) at the University of British Columbia. Through this study, we share 8 key findings regarding Urban Indigenous Housing and challenges faced in municipalities across British Columbia.
UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACTS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA’S INDIGENOUS HOUSING PROVIDERS: A Scan of the Aboriginal Housing Management’s Assets
AHMA’s successful portfolio and partnerships have had significant and beneficial impacts on its members, communities, and province as a whole.
AHMA completed a survey of its members in 2020. This detailed report is based on the information from AHMA’s members who serve about 8,700 Indigenous individuals and families (i.e. households) across all AHMA’s full membership.
AHMA’s 2018-2023 Strategic Plan
Passed by our members to define and direct our goals to achieve our mission to lead and advance the housing rights for all Indigenous People living in British Columbia
NATIONAL HOUSING STRATEGY RECOMMENDATIONS
Aboriginal Housing Management Association, October 2016
Through engagement with their Housing Providers, AHMA submitted this report with recommendations in response to the Canadian Government call for input into a National Housing Strategy.
INDIGENOUS HOUSING GUIDE
Aboriginal Housing Management Association, September 2015
A guide to providing culturally-appropriate housing for Aboriginal communities in British Columbia. This is a guide was created through a series of interviews and new development examples from AHMAs Aboriginal Housing Providers.
HONOURING THE TRUTH, RECONCILING FOR THE FUTURE
Truth & Reconcilation Commission of Canada, July 2015
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada was a commission like no
other in Canada. Constituted and created by the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, which settled the class actions, the Commission spent six years travelling to all parts of Canada to hear from the Aboriginal people who had been taken from their families as children, forcibly if necessary, and placed for much of their childhoods in residential schools.
THE ROOTS OF ABORIGINAL HOMELESSNESS IN CANADA
Aboriginal Housing Management Association, October 2012
Canada faces a national crisis in Aboriginal homelessness. While homelessness has also risen among the general population in recent decades, Aboriginal people are greatly over represented among the homeless.
URBAN ABORIGINAL PEOPLES STUDY
Environics Institute, December 2010
An extensive research study that has gone beyond the numbers to capture the values, experiences and aspirations of Aboriginal peoples living in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Montreal, Halifax and Ottawa.
ABORIGINAL HOUSING: WHY AND HOW?
Aboriginal Housing Management Association, October 2009
This report summarizes the historical, judicial, and policy arguments supporting the Aboriginal right to self-governance, focusing on off-reserve governance, particularly with regard to housing.
REPORT ON ABORIGINAL HOUSING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SESSIONS
B.C. Office of Housing & Construction Standards, March 2008
This report is a summary of the engagement sessions held as for developing a ten-year off-reserve Aboriginal Housing Action Plan that will focus on improving housing conditions for Aboriginal people living in rural and urban areas in the province.