Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the ideal situation for people who have a high income is to get into homeownership. We do have programs out there to deal with that. The Member is right. The way that we assess income is on household income. If one person is working in the mine, or someone has a seasonal job, you will see a major increase in the amount of rent that you are paying. The ideal solution to this problem is to get people into homeownership through our EDAP programs, or IHP programs, that we have in the department to ensure that people get into homeownership. That is the whole goal of the department, to get people out of social housing and allow the social housing to be there for social clients and the people making the high income, by way of working in the mines and that, to get them into homeownership. That is the goal we would like to meet, and what I have been trying to do working with the communities in the North Slave.
David Krutko on Question 306-15(4): Rent Scale For Social Housing
In the Legislative Assembly on October 27th, 2005. See this statement in context.
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Question 306-15(4): Rent Scale For Social Housing
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