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NEW HOME CONSTRUCTION NOTE: All Cheif Council Members will be addressed and requested approval for all designs and developments in every community in Canada and United States. No funds will be taken from any members in any community. This is a humanitarian project and peoples of the Nations will be hired and paid to work. The housing style will vary significantly through the different regions, therein, will cause the use of different materials. For example, in the southwestern United States an adobe style house may be built using stucco for exterior covering. But in the winter areas, especially northern Canada and Alaska, layers of installation and various siding, example, wood or brick, will help protect from cold weather conditions. In most areas of the southern United States, 1 Feather plans to use a pre-fab building material from a company called, TriDiPanels or PANELMEX, S.A. DE C.V. out of Mexicali, Mexico. It is on the border with Calexico, California. Panelmex has a manufacturing plant at this location and it has been visited by the principal of 1 Feather to see how well this operation is for home building. After construction of each unit, they are tested for both earthquake stability and ballistic proof of certain caliber bullets. The different types of housing the panels can be shaped into whether a single story or three stories high. Some areas of North America, this type of material is not feasible such in northern Canada. The shotcrete would crack due to the extreme low temperatures. As well, concrete is conducive to cold temperature and would not be energy efficient to keep a house warm. More suitable building materials that follow the building codes of each Province in Canada will be used from local suppliers. Further, each community Tribal Leaders will be consulted with the style and design of each community, within reason. The local residents of each community will be hired for the construction effect. Housing Development Strategy 1 Feather will begin operations in the most urgent and overcrowded areas. That is, communities with members living with 10 or more people in one house. As well as, houses that are laced with mold must relocate into another house as quick as possible. Ideally, it would be best to construct a new subdivision to relocate each family, remove the mold house and build another new one. The main family can move back into the house in the original location. By creating a new subdivision, the infrastructure for sewer, water and electricity can be constructed at the same time for servicing. If gas is available for heating, it will also be installed for servicing each house. The members of 1 Feather have more than twenty-five years experience each in engineering and construction of residential developments such as this and very well have the knowledge for this challenge. Some areas will have seasonal construction time whereas the design will take place off- season. That is, in the most winter extreme areas will only have construction throughout the spring, summer and autumn times. These areas are most likely in the Rocky Mountains, Alaska, and most parts of northern Canada. For the quickest way of construction, there will be two specific floor plans that will be used. Though, the exterior styles will differ per location or community, the interior will be consistent. The two floor plans will be a 3 bedroom model at 1,800 square feet and a 4 bedroom model at 2,000 square feet. Required Number of Houses for the Nations Canada "Aboriginal" is a term that includes First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. In the 2011 National Household Survey, there were 1,836,035 people in Canada who reported having Aboriginal ancestry. This represents 5.6% of the Canadian population; with this information, statistics produced by the “Assembly of First Nations” in 2013 indicate the following: ● In 2005 there was an estimated back log of 80,000 units needed on-reserve. ● In a March 2012 report, AANDC estimates that between “2010-2031 a need for 130,197 new units to accommodate household and family growth, 11,855 replacement units to accommodate the deteriorated stock, and the major renovation of between 8,261 and 10,861units.” ● As of March 14, 2013, First Nations self-reported a total of 107,627 housing units on- reserve. As it is now January 2017 and the estimate time it will take to construct all the houses could take up to 15 years or more. With the best case determination of required houses, it will be best to prepare for the most needed amount of homes due to growth. Therefore, based on the stats above, 1 Feather estimated the number of houses for Canada to be (130,197+107,627) 237,824, say 240,000 units. Housing goods and services, for the most part, can only be obtained from larger urban centers. Combined with the low income and distance of northern and remote First Nation communities from service centers, the goods and services are substantially higher. In the provinces of Ontario, around the “Greater Toronto Area” (GTA) and Vancouver, British Columbia, the construct of houses has gone through the roof. There is a housing crisis in Canada alone, not to mention the Aboriginal communities. As of January 2017, the GTA is at a 15-year low of new home inventory which is driving up the cost of home purchases. Any new subdivision is sold out before construction begins. Therein, suppliers are raising costs in order to reap the rewards due to the shortage of houses. So at this stage, building material for any type of construction is higher than in the United States. United States Although the BIA has assisted Native American families with housing, these homes are not free. It is common for Native families on the reservations to make housing payments to the BIA. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has also funded some Native housing and home repairs. Still, according to the National American Indian Housing Council, some 90,000 Native American families are homeless or under-housed, and 40% of on-reservation housing is inadequate. Though there are approximately 90,000 AIAN families whom homeless or under-housed, it is estimated of a housing shortage from 200,000 to 250,000 units according to the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. This does not include the replacement of existing dilapidated houses. From the US Census Bureau 2010, out of the total U.S. population, 2.9 million people, or 0.9 percent, reported full-blood American Indians or Alaska Natives. There is an additional 2.3 million people are mixed blood race of American Indians or Alaska Natives totaling 5.2 million people. Of that total, 22% live on reservations and more than likely, are full blooded. That would bring an approximate total of 1,144,000 living on the reservation. Therein, just looking at those living on the reservation and pairing the population, on average there are currently approximately 572,000 houses. Out of the 572,000 houses, 40% are inadequate bring the replacement house to approximately 228,800 homes. Combined with the shortage of houses (250,000+228,800), there is a need of 478,800 homes for Native Americans. This may be short by a few thousand houses because the information is from the 2010 Census and families have expanded since then. At this point, this project would stand to construct 500,000 houses. This will put several indigenous people to work for a long period of time.