The Blackfoot Family Lodge Society’s Soaring Hearts project provides 14 units for Blackfoot women and their children who are relocating from the Kainai, Siksika and Piikani Nations. (Photo: LNN)

By Christian Oldale

Soaring Hearts residential units unveiled in Lethbridge

Sep 22, 2023 | 5:17 PM

LETHBRIDGE, AB – New housing units for Indigenous women have opened up in Lethbridge.

The Blackfoot Family Lodge Society’s Soaring Hearts project provides 14 units for Blackfoot women and their children who are relocating from the Kainai, Siksika and Piikani Nations to Lethbridge.

The units are located on the site where the Netherlands Church used to be on 9 Avenue North.

The project received $3.4 million in funding through Alberta’s Indigenous Housing Capital Program, as well as the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

The housing provides affordable options for women and children moving to Lethbridge, attending school or leaving difficult circumstances.

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Lance Tailfeathers, president of the Blackfoot Family Lodge Society said, “They will have access to the support and tools necessary for a successful relocation. Then they will leave the nest for permanent homes and 14 more will receive the same opportunity.”

Residents will begin moving into the units on October 1, 2023. Further developments to the complex will include a track between the buildings to race tricycles.

Future phases of the Soaring Hearts project will feature a daycare and the redevelopment of the existing residence into a 12-unit studio apartment complex, with six being accessible design units.

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