Quick Fact Sheet

Indigenous Housing Needs in Surrey

The Surrey Urban Indigenous Leadership Committee (SUILC) has conducted extensive research and community engagements about urban Indigenous Housing Needs in Surrey. We encourage you to download and read the information shared in our Quick Fact Sheet to learn more about the unique needs of urban Indigenous people in Surrey.

The Quick Fact Sheet uses information gathered from the following SUILC reports:

Indigenous Peoples in Surrey: Highlights from the Census. 2021 Census Fact Sheets (November 2023)
SUILC Census Data Report: 2021 Profile of the Indigenous population in Surrey (May 2023)
Finding Our Way Home: Indigenous Homelessness in Surrey (October 2022)
Skookum Housing Solutions: Our Roadmap for Change (2021)
Skookum Lab Housing Report: Understanding the Housing Experience of Indigenous Households in Surrey (2020)

The SUILC gratefully acknowledges the CMHC Housing Accelerator Fund and our partnership with the City of Surrey that supported the creation this Quick Fact Sheet.

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All Our Relations: Honouring the Host Nations

Surrey Urban Indigenous Leadership Committee's work takes place on the traditional territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the Katize, Kwantlen, and Semiahmoo First Nations. We recognize their connection to this land and acknowledge that we are newcomers to Surrey like everyone else. Our group, the Surrey Urban Indigenous Leadership Committee does not represent these land-based First Nations and we are careful not to speak on their behalf. Instead, we represent urban Indigenous people that have moved here from all over BC and Canada to make Surrey their home. Our focus is making Surrey a great place for Indigenous people living in the city — regardless of where they come from, their legal status, or their particular culture heritage. As we do this, we endeavour to live in a good way with the land-based First Nations that have called this land their home since time immemorial.