Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Through the consultation process and through working with the local housing authorities in every community, we will be going from house to house and explaining the new rent scale to all the tenants in Inuktitut, as well as in English, and making sure they know all the options available to them. We will be doing that
with the local housing authority, as well as the Housing Corporation staff. I would be quite happy to arrange a briefing for the Member on the new rent scale with an interpreter supplied through the Assembly on a one-on-one basis. I don't have a problem with that. We can make that arrangement.
Once people understand the new rent scale -- and a lot of the recommendations did come from the people at the regional level into the rent scale -- they will realize that home ownership is the way to go. As far as people applying for home ownership last year, I don't have a clue how many people in the Northwest Territories applied. But I do know that we built 40 ACCESS units this year on spec that people would take them next year. There is no advantage to move into home ownership because rents were so low for high-income people. So we do have 40 units that I don't believe are taken up yet.
We also have northern rentals we can sell and some rent supps that we are looking at selling off. We have the direct lending and forgivable loan programs. That is financing that we can help people go to the bank with. We work closely with the tenant, take him through the process, take him to the bank or we finance him ourselves through direct lend or a forgivable loan. That way, we get more units for the same amount of dollars.