The challenges presented by inadequate housing will have long-term effects on today’s youngest Inuit generation, depriving them of their ability to participate fully in the future of their Inuit homelands and Canada, according to a report released today by Inuit Tuttarvingat of the National Aboriginal Health Organization. “Housing has been inadequate since Inuit began settling into permanent communities in the 1950s. The crisis is growing to the extent that many children will live their entire childhood in overcrowded houses that might have three, four or five generations living in a two or three bedroom house” according to Cathleen Knotsch, one of the authors of the study. <i>If Not Now…, When? Addressing the Ongoing Inuit Housing Crisis in Canada</i> resulted from an extensive review of research literature and reports on the effects of poor housing. Some of the findings include:
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