Mr. Speaker, Return to Written Question 6-12(5), asked by Mr. Whitford to the Minister responsible for the NWT Housing Corporation, concerning construction costs per square foot.
Today I am providing Members with a breakdown, by community, of the costs per square foot for new housing construction. The square foot costs have been determined based on the following assumptions.
-Three-bedroom Housing Corporation home ownership unit, 1064 square feet in size except for Colville Lake and Bay Chimo which are alternative housing program units, 640 square feet in size.
-Crawl space design except for Yellowknife, Fort Smith and Hay River which have basements.
-No land costs are included as those costs vary significantly from community to community.
-Foundation system consists of screwjacks except for Yellowknife, Fort Smith and Hay River which have basements and Repulse Bay, Igloolik, Pangnirtung, Fort Franklin, Inuvik, Aklavik, Fort McPherson, Arctic Red River and Tuktoyaktuk where the appropriate foundation system has been piling.
-Where actual project costs were available, they were used. Otherwise, estimates based on historical information were used.