This summer, Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center opened a 24-unit Permanent Supportive Housing community on their property in the East Phillips and Ventura Village neighborhood of Minneapolis. Named Oshki-Gakeyaa, which means “New Way” in Ojibwe, its newly renovated apartments were instantly occupied by unhoused Native individuals or families.

Twenty of those units are for high-priority individuals as well as those experiencing long-term homelessness, while four units are reserved for people with disabilities. There is now a waitlist for the apartments, a sign of the deep and persistent demand for housing, especially as temperatures drop and tents reappear in the heart of Minneapolis’ Native community. Currently, a majority of these units are occupied by Native women.

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