February 20, 2025
LU’MA NATIVE HOUSING SOCIETY AND SWAHILI VISION INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION operate a 96-unit residential building in New Westminster to provide safe, affordable housing for Indigenous and Black Elders and families.
Móytel Lalém, completed in summer 2024, “is a multi-generational and multicultural development that addresses a need for housing for two of the most underserved communities in New Westminster – urban Indigenous people and people of African descent”.
Meanwhile, in Hogan’s Alley, a historical Black community in Vancouver, Nora Hendrix Place offers temporary modular housing to 52 tenants in a three-storey development that opened in 2019. Its lead operator, the Hogan’s Alley Society, prioritizes Black and Indigenous people who are at risk of or currently homeless.
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We acknowledge that the land on which we work is the unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.