To’Koi, one of the two main communities in Gadiiahi/To’Koi Chapter/Cindy Yurth/Navajo Times
By Craig Harris and Dennis Wagner | The Republic
An Arizona Republic investigation found the NHA, steward of more than a billion dollars in federal funds, has failed the tribe’s people time and time again. Crucially, the agency tasked with easing the tribe’s housing shortage builds few new homes in any given year, and in some years has built zero.
The sprawling reservation, which touches parts of rural Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, is by any measure one of the poorest places in America, and studies have found more than 30,000 families need new homes built to be able to live in modern standards. To ease those needs, the tribe has been allocated $1.66 billion in federal housing funds since 1998 — more than any other tribe in the United States.
The Republic found fewer than 400 housing units were built from 2013 to 2016, according to NHA records.
