Building homes.
Empowering Urban Indigenous communities.
Créer des logements sûrs et abordables est notre mandat.
Vous créer un chez-vous est notre objectif.
ᑭᒋ ᐅᔑᑕᓂᐧᐊᐠ ᐧᐊᐢᑲᐃᑲᐣ ᑫ ᐃᔑ ᐸᔦᑕᑫᓂᒧᓇᓂᐧᐊᐠ.
ᐁᐧᑲᓂᒪ ᓂᑎᑕᔓᐧᐊᑎᑯᐧᐃᓂᓇᐣ᙮ ᑭᒋ
ᐅᔑᑕᓂᐧᐊᐠ ᑕᔑᑫᐧᐃᑲᒥᐠ, ᐁᐧᑲᓂ ᐧᐊᑐᑕᒪᐠ᙮
Zhichigaadeg e’waankiiwendaagwog, gshkitoon dibagaadeg endaang aawan e’nankii-aang.
Maajiishkaachigaadeg awaa daang aawan nendowi gajitowaang.
Iakwate’shennón:ni aiethinonhsóthahse né:ne kanonhstá:ton táhnon iekarakwénies.
Iakwanién:te aiakwanonhsón:ni.
Ka-oushtahk pat dawnzhee, wayhtakihtayw en maezoun aykwawnima li drway kawmiyikawshoowyahk.
Ka-oushtahk wawshkawhikun aykwawnima kaw-atoushkawtamahk.
ᓴᖅᑭᖅᑎᕆᓂᖅ ᐊᑦᑕᓇᙱᑦᑐᓂᒃ, ᐊᑭᑐᓗᐊᙱᑦᑐᓂᒃ ᐃᓪᓗᓂᒃ ᐱᓇᓱᐊᒐᑦᑕ ᑐᙵᕕᖓᑦ.
ᓴᖅᑭᖅᑎᕆᓂᖅ ᐊᖏᕐᕋᓂᒃ ᑐᕌᒐᕆᔭᕗᑦ.
NEWS & EVENTS
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ᑎᐸᒋᒧᐧᐃᓇ ᓀᐢᑕ ᑐᑕᒧᐧᐃᓇ
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Lee nouvel akwa ay-ishpayihk
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Behind the Indigenous housing crisis: Homeless man and CEO tell their stories
Michael Wesley knows how hard it is to find a place to live. For four years, he often lived in a tent in the bush, saying he felt safer there than being on the streets in Timmins and Kirkland Lake, Ont....
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OAHS is proud to launch Pathways to Housing — our brand-new community newsletter!
Big news from OAHS! We’re proud to launch Pathways to Housing — our brand-new community newsletter! ...
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Let’s Build Housing Solutions that Work for Urban Indigenous Communities
In times of uncertainty and instability, housing security must be a national priority. Experts across the sector agree: non-market community housing is essential to increasing affordability, boosting productivity, and strengthening the economy. Most importantly, access to affordable housing provides the foundation for safety and access to opportunity....
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The Don McBain Memorial Award Applications – Now Open for 2025
Today marks the opening of the Don McBain Memorial Award (DMMA) for its fifth year!...
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DID YOU KNOW?
“Working together, among all levels of government, is essential to address the housing needs of Indigenous people living in urban and rural areas. Safe, affordable, and culture-based housing is the foundation for healthy communities…the task of building up our communities requires positive and productive partnerships to get the job done of successfully housing people in a good way.”
“Article 21 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples states: 1. Indigenous peoples have the right, without discrimination, to the improvement of their economic and social conditions, including, inter alia, in the areas of education, employment, vocational training and retraining, housing, sanitation, health and social security. 2. States shall take effective measures and, where appropriate, special measures to ensure continuing improvement of their economic and social conditions. Particular attention shall be paid to the rights and special needs of indigenous elders, women, youth, children and persons with disabilities.”
“Indigenous peoples have the right to determine and develop priorities and strategies for exercising their right to development. In particular, Indigenous peoples have the right to be actively involved in developing and determining health, housing and other economic and social programs affecting them and, as far as possible, to administer such programs through their own institutions.”
In Memory of Don McBain
“Don believed in people. In many different capacities and to many different people, Don was a mentor, supervisor, and coach. Don continually invested his time and energy in people with compassion and passion. The Don McBain Memorial Award is one small way that the OAHS team has come together to tangibly continue Don’s legacy of helping and investing in people.”
“The For Indigenous By Indigenous (FIBI) National Housing Strategy proposal has, as its foundation, a service-based approach to assisting Indigenous People who need housing. The Strategy calls for the Government of Canada to acknowledge and support the 45 year history of successful provision of urban native, and rural and native housing, and to financially support the proposed program elements and investments to continue to meet client needs in urban, rural and northern parts of Canada.”