Sen̓áḵw: New rental buildings in Vancouver mark fresh start for Squamish Nation

Kasian’s Sen̓áḵw project has been featured in The Globe and Mail.

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Written by Salmaan Farooqui, the article begins:

When Squamish Nation chair Wilson Williams talks about the towering new rental buildings his nation has erected close to downtown Vancouver, his mind goes to his 19-year-old daughter.

Her aspirations of attending the nearby University of British Columbia have been plagued by a major question: “Can we afford it?”

The development, named Senákw after a Squamish village that sat on these very lands until the early 1900s, will have, among thousands of planned apartments, hundreds of subsidized units for Indigenous people. Eleven buildings will eventually sit on 10 acres of prime waterfront real estate in the city’s Kitsilano neighbourhood, a short commute from UBC and a quick walk to one of the city’s most well-known beaches. Mr. Williams’s daughter has applied for one of the subsidized units there.

Read more about this residential building.