LISTEN | Indigenous-led housing is on the rise: Cost of Living 9:45 Is housing the new First Nation-building project?

Jeff Messina and his wife were ready to start the next chapter of their lives. Newly married and eager to begin a family, they dreamed of owning a home that was big enough to raise their kids in — a place with space to play, maybe with a front and back yard.

But in Metro Vancouver’s sky-high housing market, that dream seemed impossible.

“Vancouver, Burnaby, any of the Lower Mainland cities [in B.C.] were just unaffordable,” Messina told CBC’s

Then, one tip changed everything. His wife, who works in real estate marketing, learned about an Indigenous-led housing development on Tsawwassen First Nation land, south of Vancouver.

There, new homes were selling for a

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