The proposal includes partnering with modular workforce housing builder Atco Sustainable Communities, Inc., to construct a training center in Fisher River for training, with the end goal of the workers building modular homes to be shipped to their own communities for siting. Fisher River is a little over 100 miles north of Winnipeg.
Fisher River and Atco already have resources for the training center, but are seeking funding for the training, which they say will require about 40 instructors, adding, the first year of building they anticipate 150 new modular homes, according to winnipegfreepress.
MHProNews understands nearly one-third of Manitoba’s indigenous people live in substandard housing. Crate said his community alone needs 200 new homes, but it may receive only ten this year. ##
(Photo credit: calgaryherald/Stuart Gradon–Great Plains modular homes)
