New Study Shows Tribes Nationwide Need About 68,000 Homes

The Housing and Urban Development Office has released a large scale study evaluating the severity of the housing crisis in Indian Country. It’s the most comprehensive research conducted on the subject and the only study of its kind in about 20 years. The study concludes there’s a need for about 68,000 new homes across tribal lands nationwide.

HUD commissioned the Urban Institute to conduct the study. Researcher Nancy Pindus was one of the lead authors and said, with such a huge shortage, many tribes are suffering from a unique form of homelessness in which people crowd together in the limited number of homes available rather than put people on the streets. She said since the passage of the Native American Self Determination Act in 1996, tribes have been given more power to help solve the problem. But they haven’t been given more money.

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