Membership

Join NICHI, ensure a URN strategy brings meaningful change

Indigenous Housing Providers across Canada have long envisioned a permanent, national Indigenous housing organization—one that could lead long-term policy development, build sector capacity, measure impact through data, foster partnerships, and design and deliver funding programs tailored to their needs.   In 2022, that vision became a reality with the creation of the National Indigenous Collaborative Housing Inc. (NICHI)—an organization built by and for Indigenous Housing Providers to advance their collective goals.  NICHI’s early advocacy efforts led to a historic federal investment of $281.5 million in June 2023. These funds were administered and flowed to projects across the country with unprecedented speed and efficiency, resulting in families receiving keys to their new homes by December 2024.  In addition to funding delivery, NICHI hosted its first national capacity-building event in December 2024 and is already planning the 2025 National Capacity Gathering to further strengthen the sector.  NICHI was not created for a single program. It was created to respond to a long-term and systemic housing crisis affecting Indigenous people in urban, rural, and northern communities. This work requires sustained Indigenous leadership and infrastructure—NICHI is that infrastructure.

Now is the time for us to come together, to ensure traditional knowledge is mobilized to change our future. Members, partners and allies support the URN Declaration. They see the value of standing together to gain strength in a collective voice to access badly needed funding. Become a member. Show you want culturally appropriate support that is For Indigenous By Indigenous.

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Member Support for the National Indigenous Collaborative Housing Inc.

Organizations can join NICHI by applying if eligible (see below).

As a member of NICHI, your organization agrees to the following action items:

  • Incorporate a national URN Indigenous housing entity to achieve collective goals, manage and control allocated funds that will be used towards providing housing and housing supports for Indigenous peoples;
  • Collaborate with one another through the national organizational structure to provide housing for URN Indigenous peoples;
  • Work together to compile research, develop communications strategies with respect to advancing the URN housing strategy;
  • Jointly identify, develop, and advocate priority initiatives that the signatories mutually agree upon;
  • Acknowledge the need for partnerships with governments, municipalities and Indigenous governments and other parties to benefit the provision of housing for URN Indigenous peoples; and
  • Make decisions jointly with partner organizations where collectively agreed upon.

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For Indigenous housing organizations

A Member is defined as an Indigenous Housing Group. “Indigenous Housing Group” means an urban, rural, or northern Indigenous organization providing housing services in any province or territory of Canada.

Eligibility Criteria (proof is required below):

  1. Indigenous-led organizations in urban, rural and northern areas of Canada. We define Indigenous-led organizations as:
    • Board and Executive leadership is over 50% Indigenous.
    • Organization serves one or all of the three distinct Indigenous populations in your community or region, i.e. First   Nation, Inuit or Métis.
  2. Non-Profit
  3. Housing Group as providing at least one of the following:
    1. Supportive Services
    2. Transitional/ Supportive Housing
    3. Non-market Housing
    4. Affordable Housing

Please download the application form, then submit your completed application and organization's logo (.jpg file) to: info@nichihousing.com.

You will receive an email confirmation once your application has been reviewed for approval.

NICHI Members

Angunasuktiit Hunters

Association of Metis, Non & Status Indians, Saskatchewan

Buffalo Narrows Friendship Centre

Dawson Creek Native Housing Society

Dreamcatcher Housing Ltd.

First Nations Co-Operative

Fort St John Native Housing Society

Fort St John Native Housing Society

High Level Native Friendship Centre Society

Kamloops Native Housing Society logo

Kamloops Native Housing Society

Kekekoziibii Development Corporation

Kotawan Housing Society

Our Nation Student Housing Logo

Our Nation Student Housing Inc.

Pehdzeh Ki First Nation

Pinehousing Housing Corp Logo

Pinehouse Housing Corp

Skigin Elnoog Housing Corp logo

Skigin-Elnoog Housing Corporation

Wenjikwom Housing Commission Society logo

Wenjikwom Housing Commission Society

Zhahti Koe Friendship Centre

Wider Sector Support for the National Indigenous Collaborative Housing Inc.

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Brockville Streetfriends logo

Brockville Streetfriends

Choices Management Services logo

Choices Management Services

Eastmain Youth Council logo

Eastmain Youth Council

Elemental Infrastructure Logo

elemental infrastructure

Farber Real Estate Group logo

FARBER REAL ESTATE GROUIP

Figurr Architects Collective

Gloucester Housing Corporation logo

Gloucester Housing Corporation

Green Arrow Healing Logo

Green Arrow Healing Inc.

Green Violin Logo

Green Violin Community Development Company

Holistic Healing logo

Holistic Healing & Wellness

Homeward Public Affairs logo

Homeward Public Affairs

Indigenous Oasis

Mount Pearl Streetfriends logo

Mount Pearl Streetfriends

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Offsite Focus

Peel Alliance to End Homelessness logo

Peel Alliance to End Homelessness

Pisim logo

Pisim Cancer Care Centre

Plant Housing and Development

Rally Around Homelessness logo

Rally Around Homelessness

Salt River First Nation 195

Sovereign Synergies logo

Sovereign Synergies

Spruce Lab Logo

Spruce Lab, Landscape Architecture and Planning

SCP logo

Street Culture Project

Summers & Co. Logo

Summers & Co

Temple Scott Associates logo

Temple Scott Associates

The Communitas Group logo

The Communitas Group Ltd.

Vancity Community Investment Bank VCIB