Author: Administrator

Wounded Knee Lagoon Upgrades and Expansion
At the request of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, we obtained $1,456,000 from USDA to renovate the Wounded Knee Lagoon which has been ineffective for a number of years and not large enough for the structures in the town. We signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the Indian Health Service Office […]

Indian Community Development Block Grant 2015
Renovation of Low-rent Unit Exteriors and Remediation of 21 Houses Contaminated by Meth Oglala Sioux Lakota Housing was funded in early 2016 under the Indian Community Development Block Grant 2015 Category 1 competition for $1,100,000 from HUD with leverage of $366,667 from our own funds to redo 61 exteriors (windows, […]

Board of Directors Meetings
The Oglala Sioux (Lakota) Housing Board of Directors meetings are the 1st Wednesday of the month at 10:00am at the Johnson Holy Rock Building in Pine Ridge, South Dakota.

Tipi Zannika (Healthy Homes) Mold Remediation Program
Creating Healthier Living Environments The Mold Remediation program began at the request of the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council in 2006. Tipi Zannika’s main objective is to remediate mold in bathrooms, basements, and kitchens. Starting in 2009 Oglala Sioux Lakota Housing began obtaining grants to completed mold remediation projects throughout the […]

Oglala Sioux Lakota Housing Launches New Website
Oglala Sioux Lakota Housing is pleased to announce a new website that will serve as a powerful communications tool to provide timely and accurate information to the people of the Pine Ridge Reservation. Our new website showcases new housing developments and provides information on how to access our programs. In […]

Title VI Housing Development
We obtained the first HUD Title VI Guaranteed loan in South Dakota in 2015 to do infrastructure and lot development, and placed 45 South Dakota Governor’s Homes as low-rent units throughout the Reservation by 2018.

Tipi Zannika (Healthy Homes) Mold Remediation Program
In 2008, the Oglala Sioux Tribe asked us to do something about the rampant mold problem in the low-rent units. From 2009 to 2018, we obtained six Indian Community Development Block grants and remediated mold in and renovated 697 houses (734 bathrooms, 51 kitchens, 371 basements). Following is a list […]

Makoce Na Mni Waste (Good Earth and Water)
Through a Bush Community Innovation Grant, we are bringing all tribal and federal stakeholders on the Pine Ridge Reservation together to set up effective water, wastewater, and solid waste management systems under a new type of management entity for operations, maintenance, upgrade, and new infrastructure and planning and development.

Elders Get Renovated Homes at Cherry Hill
Over the past 3 years Oglala Sioux Lakota Housing (OSLH) has worked on renovating the 32 units reserved for the elderly and disabled at the Cherry Hill Complex in Pine Ridge Village. The 600 square foot 1-bedroom units were originally built in the mid 1960s. We obtained two grants from […]