Assessing urban Aboriginal housing needs in southern Alberta

The data compiled from a questionnaire delivered to a sample of the urban Aboriginal population were utilized to demonstrate the standard of living of Aboriginal people in Lethbridge in relation to their professed needs and contemporary housing conditions. [...] In response to SHIA’s call for research into the issue of Aboriginal affordable housing, Alberta Human Resources and Employment (AHRE) in 2006 commissioned Currently, more Aboriginal people a report to provide: (1) a formal appraisal of the current housing needs of Aboriginal live in cities than on reserves in 1 people in the city of Lethbridge; and, (2) the statistical data needed to develop a mo [...] With is also growing rapidly with this in mind, a quantitative study, the first of its kind in southern Alberta highlighting Aboriginal people representing a these issues, was structured to gauge, above all, the housing needs of Aboriginal people significant percentage of the overall living in Lethbridge, and the factors influencing housing needs and desires for population in many prairie cities. [...] It is not possible to discern from secondary source literature the present socio-economic and cultural reality of Aboriginal people in Lethbridge without first producing a rudimentary assessment of the people and place in the moment. [...] As a result, the diminished Aboriginal provide a basic demographic profile presence led non-Native settlers to establish a coal mine at Lethbridge in 1872, which of Aboriginal people in Lethbridge was followed in the 1880s by the arrival of Mormon immigrants from Utah.