Every person in Canada deserves a safe and affordable place to call home. Solving Canada's housing crisis requires immediate action to build more homes, faster, while ensuring housing meets the needs of communities across the country.

Central to that effort is Build Canada Homes, Canada's new federal housing agency, which is increasing the pace of homebuilding by investing in affordable, supportive, and community housing projects that help create stronger, more inclusive communities.

Today, the Government of Canada, through Build Canada Homes, announced support for Ojistoh House, a new Indigenous-led transitional supportive housing project being developed by Brantford Native Housing in Brantford, Ontario.

As the first transitional supportive housing project of its kind in Brantford and Brant County, Ojistoh House will help address a critical gap in housing and support services for Urban Indigenous women, children, youth, gender diverse, and Two-Spirit community members experiencing or at risk of homelessness, violence, and housing insecurity. Grounded in a for-Indigenous, by-Indigenous approach, the project will provide culturally safe transitional housing and help residents move toward permanent housing.