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Founded in 1972, Wigwamen Incorporated, a non-profit and charitable organization, is Ontario’s oldest and largest urban Indigenous housing provider. Wigwamen Incorporated owns and operates more than 865 units, comprised of 221 housing units scattered throughout the City of Toronto including singles, semis, duplexes, triplexes etc; 127 units at Wigwamen Terrace located at 14 Spadina Road; 92 units at Wigwamen Waabnong, located at 20 Sewells Road; 60 units at Estorada, located at 228 Galloway Road; 145 units located at the Pan Am building at 75 Cooperage Street; 115 units located at 525 Markham Road; and 41 units at Place Perrault, located at 205 Eric Czapnik Way in Ottawa.
Wigwamen is committed to providing decent, safe and affordable housing to thousands of Indigenous and non-Indigenous families, singles and seniors. And with the current dire need for more affordable housing, we are doing everything we can to create more.
In April of 2024, Wigwamen began construction of 62 new units of affordable housing at 515 Markham Road in Scarborough. This project is an intensification of an existing affordable housing site owned by Wigwamen and involves the development of a new 6-storey building on the site.
Wigwamen is in the pre-construction stage of developing 50 units of affordable housing targeted for Indigenous older adults at 2040 Arrowsmith Drive in Gloucester. We're partnering with March of Dimes Canada and the Gloucester Emergency Food Cupboard to enhance this development.