Mr. Speaker, I have a return to written question asked by the Member for Great Slave and responded to by the Minister responsible for the NWT Housing Corporation concerning GNWT harmonization initiative.

Under the proposed harmonization initiative, revenue neutrality was achieved by ensuring that the total decrease in rent revenue was balanced by an equal amount in rent increases.

Some 96 households in Yellowknife would have received rent increases, while 163 households would have received rent decreases.

For Yellowknife public housing residents, the range of rent decreases and increases varies from a decrease of $238 to an increase of $497.

The harmonization initiative had proposed to grandfather current seniors in public housing at zero rent. Students would have had their first year's rent assessed to a maximum of $200 with an increment of $50 a year to a maximum of $400.

Income support clients would have had to neither pay more nor less under harmonization.