RECONCILIATION: MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER - APPENDICES
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7. Research Acknowledge the positive social impacts of our housing.
Add a social outcome lens to the work that we do to measure success. Measure housing by impact not by housing units created, acknowledging how it affects immediate, extended family and Indigenous community also. Measure by health, social and economic outcomes. 8. Addressing Land Title Recognition of the colonial system of land titles based on buying, selling or developing land on unceded territory. Without a complete dismantling and decolonizing of the Torrens system, the economic benefits reaped from that system must be recognized and economic reconciliation pursued in lieu. Address the challenges of the systems we are operating within, in addition to the other context already included (e.g. that PRHC owns land not been ceded through treaty, the reasons for the vastly disproportionate representation of Indigenous peoples amongst those experiencing homelessness, etc.). Some of these systemic challenges cannot be redressed by BC Housing directly and we need to ensure that the importance of this conversation is part of our longer-term strategy. The land ownership system is still designed to create intergenerational wealth however many Indigenous peoples still live on reserves where they don’t own the land and are not able to take advantage of the wealth building system.
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