The Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center has started to welcome residents into newly constructed permanent supportive housing units. The south Minneapolis nonprofit began construction on 24 housing units last year.
The units are located on the center’s third and fourth floors in a housing community called Oshki-Gakeyaa, meaning “New Way” in the Ojibwe language.
CEO Ruth Buffalo says the new housing service will focus on providing space for unhoused members of the community. Native Americans experience homelessness at much higher rates than other groups according to the Minnesota Homeless Study. Buffalo says the program joins others offered at the center in preventative work…