How experts are dismantling colonial approaches to business and housing
Why It Matters
One of the main ways Canadians start businesses and build wealth is by leveraging their homes. However, Indigenous home ownership is close to zero, creating huge systemic barriers to economic development โ barriers that can be broken down by decolonizing financial structures.
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A program designed to help dismantle community dependence on fossil fuels is also helping dismantle barriers for Indigenous people and communities to building wealth.
In 2023, Raven Indigenous Capital Partners, in partnership with Efficiency Manitoba, CMHC, Fisher River Cree Nation, Peguis First Nation, and Sioux Valley Dakota Nation, launched the โGround Source Heat Pump Program,โ aiming to install nearly 400 energy-saving pumps in homes in First Nation communities.ย
Jeff Cyr, managing partner of Raven Capital, said the program hires people strug
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