Calgarian wins $20K award for Indigenous housing stability research

When the senior leadership at Horizon Housing, a non-profit affordable housing provider, wanted to figure out why so many Indigenous tenants were involuntary leaving their units, Calgary research consultant Nick Falvo jumped at the opportunity to get to the bottom of it.

While just over 10 per cent of Horizon's residents are Indigenous, Indigenous residents account for 44 per cent of negative, involuntary exits.

Alongside a mostly Indigenous advisory committee, and partnered with the Aboriginal Standing Committee on Housing and Homelessness, Falvo researched the issue for nine months to write a commissioned report for Horizon Housing.

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