All housing policy should be viewed through a reconciliation lens.

That is:

• Do the housing policies or strategies in question exacerbate or help redress the colonization of indigenous peoples in Canada? For example, do they seek to flow real estate-derived wealth back to indigenous communities on whose traditional and/or unceded lands that wealth was created?
• Do they seek to identify and redress housing-related infringements of rights?
• Do they include dedicated and well-resourced urban indigenous housing strategies and cultural housing options?
• Do they include the necessary resources and/or desired self-governing powers to help indigenous governments solve housing issues in long-lasting and locally-tailored ways?