Wigwamen Incorporated - Urban Native Housing, Aboriginal Housing, Toronto, Wigwamen Non-Profit Residential Corp.

Founded in 1972, Wigwamen Incorporated is Ontario's oldest and largest urban Native housing provider. With 210 units scattered throughout the City of Toronto, a 92-unit apartment building for families and singles in Scarborough, and a 103-unit apartment complex for seniors in downtown Toronto, Wigwamen is commited to providing decent, safe and affordable housing to thousands of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal families, singles and seniors.

Wigwamen Non-Profit Residential Corp. delivers the Ontario Aboriginal Housing Support Services Centre's (OAHSSC) "Rural and Native Housing Program" in a number of communities across Ontario.

Wigwamen Non-Profit is also responsible for the delivery of Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's (CMHC) "Residential Rehabilitation Assistance Program" for homeowners and for persons with disabilities living in Peterborough County, Northumberland County, the City of Kawartha Lakes and the Durham Region.

What's New:

Recognizing that the solution to poverty and homelessness is affordable and supportive housing, Wigwamen Incorporated has partnered with YWCA Toronto in the development of YWCA Elm Centre - 300 new, self-contained units of affordable housing in downtown Toronto. Fifty of these units will be for Aboriginal families. More information coming soon... On June 16th, 2010, six of Wigwamen's Board of Directors were honoured with a Volunteer Service Award for their commitment to volunteering. Click here to see pictures of the ceremony and the honouries.

Wigwamen Incorporated
23 Lesmill Rd, Unit 106, Toronto, Ontario M3B 3P6
Tel: 416-481-4451 Fax: 416-481-5002

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Updated October 23, 2011