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Niki Ashton on Housing Crisis

NDP MP Niki Ashton called on Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government to stop stalling and urgently deliver housing for Indigenous and northern communities in Manitoba. For years, people living in Indigenous and northern communities have been dealing with a devastating housing crisis, a result of Liberal and Conservative government cuts.  

 

“Many people living on First Nations across northern Manitoba are living in shockingly unacceptable housing,” said Ashton. “Despite the Liberals promising to deliver an Urban, Rural and Northern Indigenous Housing Strategy since 2017, Indigenous people are still waiting. Even these promises are not sufficient to meet the acute housing needs across our region. This must change. People in the North can’t wait any longer.”  

 

The reality is the housing crisis in Indigenous and northern communities is a matter of life and death. The covid-19 pandemic hit First Nations particularly hard in part because of the overcrowded and inadequate housing conditions. The Liberals’ inaction is leaving communities to suffer. In fact, since the Liberals got into power, the housing crisis has only gotten worse.   

 

“In many Indigenous communities across northern Manitoba people are living in inhumane housing conditions,” said Ashton. “The Liberals failed to fully deliver an Urban, Rural and Northern Indigenous Housing Strategy promised since 2017, a plan that would not even meet the communities' needs. This must change. Indigenous people can’t wait any longer.”  



The NDP is also urging the Liberal government to keep their promise to deliver a ‘For Indigenous, By Indigenous’ housing strategy and to establish an all-weather road system so that building materials can be shipped into communities on a regular basis to help with housing maintenance.  

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