The federal government and the non-profit Edmonton 2 Spirit (E2S) announced $6.4 million in funding on Friday for supportive housing helping Indigenous 2SLGBTQI+ people get out of gender-based violence situations.
The project, which will fund two buildings with 24 supportive living spaces, “will cater to their unique needs including vulnerability to violence, trauma and further marginalization affecting their physical and mental health,” according to a media release from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC).
On-site support programs will be available to residents.
“Some of the most marginalized people in our community are people from the two-spirit community,” Randy Boissonnault, the member of parliament for Edmonton-Centre and the federal minister of employment, workforce development and official languages, told media following the announcement on empty land on 142 Street in the Grovenor neighbourhood.
“The fact we had a grassroots organization – which had been funded in the past, and …