Reconciliation project asks B.C. residents to pay ‘rent’ to live on traditional First Nations lands – CTV Vancouver Island
Oct. 5, 2021
Victoria – A Victoria-based non-profit agency has developed a program that allows B.C. residents to voluntarily pay a portion of their housing costs as “rent” to First Nations communities.
The initiative by an agency called Reciprocity Trusts would see homeowners, renters and business owners make a tangible act of reconciliation rather than a symbolic one.
“Reciprocity is a way for all of us to decolonize our own backyards,” said Reciprocity founder and CEO Craig Candler. “The wealth that we have in this country, it’s all because of a particular and uncomfortable colonial history and we’re all part of that, we can’t change that, but we can change how we work in the future.”
