The federal government already provides funding for housing on Aboriginal reserves and B.C. has no fiduciary responsibility for reserves. As far as off reserve, every B.C. community needs funding/incentives for affordable housing, and Race/Ethnicity should play no part in it:
“A request from the provincial government for more proposals for its {$1.8 billion} “Building BC: Indigenous Housing Fund” could see more than 1,000 new affordable homes available for local ‘First Nations’ {Aboriginal} communities.
“The call-out, the second to come since the funding was first announced in 2018, invites ‘Indigenous’ {sic} housing operators, ‘First Nations’, and other ‘Indigenous’organizations to submit applications for funding for their affordable housing proposals.
“Proposals, which can be made for homes on and off reserve, will be accepted by BC Housing until April 30 {The submissions just closed}. The chosen projects will be announced by the summer.
“Squamish ‘Nation’ (‘Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw’) {a wealthy ‘nation’ of 4,388 people} elected council member Wilson Williams said the funding shows the government is being responsive to the needs of ‘Indigenous’ communities.
“Building a home that includes design for multi-generational living, gathering, and cultural expression will help “ensure people have connections to one another, to their language and to their culture”, he said.
“It also helps those smaller, rural ‘Indigenous’ communities across the province that are so in need of additional housing.”
“Williams said the ‘Nation’ {Aboriginal Band} will apply for funding for the first time for a project on the Seymour Indian Reserve No. 2, in addition to applying for pre-development funding for building on the Mission Reserve.
“Since the launch of the $1.8 billion ‘Indigenous Housing Fund’, more than 1,500 homes have gotten underway, with 1,200 more units expected to be announced by next summer.
“Chief Jen Thomas of the Tsleil-Waututh ‘Nation’ (‘səlilwətaɬ’) {a ‘nation’ of 685 people} said the ‘Nation’ is “pleased” to be given another option for housing in the community.
“This new pot of funding gives us another opportunity to look at different ways of getting houses and to bring our members back to the community”,
{Increasing B.C.s segregation}
she said, adding how the ‘Nation’ has benefited from many projects before – a new 50-unit apartment building is currently underway through BC Housing’s {taxpayer-funded} Community Housing Fund – but never through the IHF.
“We are always struggling for funding. This is going to help out a lot of communities because there is such a big shortage for homes for members of all ‘Indigenous’ communities.”
…”
–‘B.C. government to fund more than 1,000 affordable homes for Indigenous communities’,
Mina Kerr-Lazenby, Local Journalism Initiative {Government-Funded} Reporter, North Shore News, Dec.11, 2023
See also:
“A former councillor of the Squamish ‘Nation’ {a ‘nation’ of 4,388 people} has been found guilty of defrauding the ‘nation’ out of about $1 million and using it for her own purposes. Former Band councillor and department head Krisandra Jacobs, 57, was found guilty of charges of fraud and theft Friday (Nov. 5) by North Vancouver provincial court Judge Lyndsay Smith.
“In handing down her decision, Smith said she was satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that Jacobs had deliberately crafted a scheme whereby she used her powerful position in the ‘Nation’s political structure to bypass financial checks and balances and obtain money for her own purposes.
“I have no doubt Ms. Jacobs committed deceitful acts”
that deprived the Squamish ‘Nation’ of funds, Smith wrote in her decision.
“At the time of the fraud, between April 2011 and May 2014, Jacobs and the ‘Nation’s elected Band manager Glen Newman were in charge of an emergency fund meant as a fund of last resort for ‘Nation’ members in need. Usually, requests for emergency assistance came through legitimate channels and were backed up with proper documentation afterwards.
“But during the trial, several witnesses who worked in the ‘Nation’s finance department described how Jacobs had set up an additional “shadow process” that she used to circumvent those controls. Frequently, Jacobs would email requests for money and ask that clerks come in on weekends to issue cheques to her, when she knew nobody who should formally approve the cheques would be working, Smith noted.
“Jacobs refused to provide any documentation of what she was using the money for, the judge added, citing the need for confidentiality. But Smith said she didn’t believe the privacy argument, concluding instead that it was
“a lie in an effort to prevent her false and dishonest scheme from being discovered”.
“An internal investigation was eventually launched by a Band chief operating officer, Walter Schneider, who noticed that Jacobs was among the top 50 payees of the Squamish ‘Nation’. Schneider, a chartered professional accountant and Squamish ‘Nation’ member who lived off-reserve his whole life, testified during the trial how after he was hired in 2013, he began a review of the ‘Nation’s accounts and noticed a large number of cheques being issued through the Band manager’s emergency fund.
“Schneider said he knew about other typical amounts paid from the fund, such as emergency help with food and rent payments.
“But then I started to see these other payments in there that no one mentioned, to Krisandra Jacobs and to Glen Newman. And that obviously raised a significant flag for me”,
he testified.
“Schneider testified he eventually looked back through accounts dating back to 2003.
“Although a detailed analysis only focused on one or two years, “if I look at the pattern, it was, you know, upwards of $8 million, the payments going to Krissy and Glen”, he testified during the trial.
“Following the internal investigation, Jacobs and Newman were both suspended, then fired from their positions, and the Squamish ‘Nation’ took the results of its internal investigation to the RCMP.
“In handing down her decision, Smith noted Jacobs requested and received 422 cheques during the time of the fraudulent scheme. Frequently, after receiving the cheques, she would deposit a similar amount into personal bank accounts, said Smith. That would often be followed by payments on personal cellphone accounts, credit cards and utility bills, Smith noted.
“Banking records showed between April 2011 and May 2014, Jacobs and her husband brought in approximately $500,000 in legitimate income, yet spent about $880,000 in the same time period, Smith said.
“Jacobs will be sentenced at a later date.”
–‘Former Squamish Nation councillor guilty of fraud’,
Jane Seyd, Squamish Chief, Nov. 5, 2021
https://www.squamishchief.com/local-news/former-squamish-nation-councillor-guilty-of-fraud-4728868
Background:
‘Squamish Fraud’ {Mar.25, 2021}:
“A former Squamish ‘Nation’ {a ‘nation’ of 4,300 people} councillor, Krisandra Jacobs, went on trial last month in a BC provincial court, charged with defrauding the Band government of close to $1 million… Financial records point towards Jacobs attending casinos shortly after cheques were deposited into the account of either her or her husband…”
https://endracebasedlaw.ca/2021/03/25/squamish-fraud/
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