In the Legislative Assembly on February 28th, 2002. See this topic in context.

Delegation Of Authority For Housing Programs
Item 3: Members' Statements

February 27th, 2002

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Leon Lafferty North Slave

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Northwest Territories Housing Corporation has an agreement with the local housing authorities to manage their housing programs. The local housing authorities are responsible for administering the programs for homeowners and for assigning public housing rental units.

Mr. Speaker, the housing division is also responsible for completing repairs. MLAs are getting complaints from their constituents, Mr. Speaker, because they are not able to access some of the programs. I hear complaints that repairs are not being carried out on some of these units, even though the funding has been approved. There is a great concern about how the housing division is spending the money on programs and services.

Also, I would like to point out that another great concern of theirs is what kind of monitoring is being done by the housing division of this government. Mr. Speaker, I will be following up on this matter during question period. Thank you.

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The Speaker

The Speaker Tony Whitford

Thank you, Mr. Lafferty. Item 3, Members' statements. The honourable Member for Hay River South, Mrs. Groenewegen.