Indigenous groups and governments are increasingly exploring alternative and more holistic ways of addressing housing challenges within their communities. This document, along with other complementary tools offered by Ecotrust Canada, provide a series of resources that can be drawn upon and adapted by communities to identify and articulate housing ecosystems, to develop housing ecosystem strategies, and ultimately to monitor improvements in housing-related processes utilizing locally derived indicators of success. The Indigenous Home-Lands (IHL) team at Ecotrust Canada has developed a housing ecosystem overview which takes into account the interconnected nature of housing with broader community and territorial processes and aspirations. This approach recognizes that housing, because of its link to the economic, social, and cultural well-being of a community, is ...
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