Canada Adds $130 Million for Inuit Housing, Total Reaches $327.8M

Canada is adding $130 million to housing funding for Inuit Treaty Organizations, the federal government announced Friday in Kuujjuaq, Quebec. Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Rebecca Alty and Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty made the announcement through the Urban, Rural and Northern Indigenous Housing Strategy.

The top-up builds on $197.5 million already allocated, for a total of $327.8 million for the four Inuit Treaty Organizations under the strategy. The precise new figure is $130,268,447 over five years, from 2026-27 to 2030-31. The money is divided by the general regional funding formula: $65,264,492 to Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., $32,567,112 to Makivvik, $16,934,898 to the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, and $15,501,945 to the Nunatsiavut Government, according to an Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami board resolution on the same allocation.

What the money is for

The government said the funding supports Inuit-led housing projects and related measures: new homes, transitional housing, shelters, housing navigators, rent subsidies, short-term housing for students, and housing for vulnerable people. The wider strategy is a $4 billion federal program for Indigenous housing in urban, rural and northern communities. Close to $1.7 billion of it will be delivered by Build Canada Homes, the federal housing agency. In April 2026, Canada announced a $780 million top-up to the strategy's distinctions-based agreements, and the Inuit share of that top-up is the $130 million announced in Kuujjuaq.

Pita Aatami, president of Makivvik, attended the Kuujjuaq announcement, which was held at 874 Naalavvik Street. The announcement ceremony had been flagged in advance by Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada.

Why it matters

Housing in Inuit Nunangat is delivered through the Treaty Organizations rather than through ordinary provincial programs, so the allocation split is the delivery map: Nunavut takes the largest share, followed by Nunavik through Makivvik, then the Inuvialuit Settlement Region and Nunatsiavut. The mix of uses also matters. Alongside construction, the money covers the supports that keep people housed between homes: shelters, transitional units, navigators and rent help. In northern communities where building seasons are short and shipping windows decide what can be built in a year, five-year funding lets organizations plan projects across seasons instead of one cheque at a time.

What happens next

The funding flows over five years to 2030-31 under the existing agreements. Project choices sit with the four organizations. The federal release did not list individual projects for this top-up, so the next test is which homes, shelters and supports each organization announces in its own region.