Native American Housing

This superb book about Native American architecture is filled with information about Iroquois longhouses, Navajo hogans, Pawnee earth lodges, and Northwest Coast dwellings. Truly entertaining for the mind and spirit, it uses scholarship and mythology to teach young people about Native American houses and structures from around the country.

HUD has traditionally provided federal housing assistance to Native Americans through many of the same programs that have provided public housing to the nation's low-income families. However, this changed significantly on October 26, 1996, when the President signed the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA) into law. This act separated Indian housing programs from public housing programs and provides federal housing assistance for Indian tribes in a manner that recognizes the tribes' right of self-determination and self-governance. This report examines certain aspects of HUD's implementation of NAHASDA.