Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, one of the core components of our initiatives is to look at the affordability, adequacy and suitability of housing for people in the North. I think the biggest element of that is affordability. We hear about people trying to get mortgages, people trying to get into homeownership, but the problem that we're running into is the costs of stick-built homes in the Northwest Territories are excessive. We do have a manufacturing directive that looks at manufacturing products in the North, and in the last 10 years we've spent $18 million in that area. All that goes back to the homeowner. I think it's important that through those three initiatives, looking at the affordability questions, the suitability and also the accessibility for people to be able to access these programs and not have these restraints in place. So right now through the mandate review, those are the three goals and objectives we're trying to meet through the new mandate change that we're going forward with.
David Krutko on Question 472-15(3): Mandate Of The Housing Corporation
In the Legislative Assembly on February 24th, 2005. See this statement in context.
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