title: Indigenous housing and health in the Canadian North: Revisiting cultural safety.
abstract: In this article, I explore the relationship between housing, home and health amongst Indigenous homeless people living in the Canadian North. In particular, I examine the ways in which Indigenous homemaking practices conflict with housing policy, and exacerbate individual pathways to homelessness. I argue that integral components in northern Indigenous conceptualizations of home and, in turn, health are not only unrecognized in housing policy, but actively discouraged. The potential for homemaking to inform health and housing policy speaks to the relevance of cultural safety not only to Indigenous health services, but also to a comprehensive framing of Indigenous health.
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark. Electronic address: juliac@ruc.dk.
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Christensen
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D006703:Ill-Housed Persons / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006798:Housing / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D044382:Population Groups / Q000523:psychology*; D064890:Social Determinants of Health
keywords: Cultural safety; Homelessness; Housing policy; Indigenous; Social determinants of health; Trauma