Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I don't know if the department looks at long-term, but a 20-year life on trailers is not really looking long term as far as I am concerned with the housing initiative. When we are thinking long term, we have to look at least 50 years down the road. At a cost of $190,000 per unit, we are looking at almost $1 million spent in one community and they haven't been utilized for a year now. The $1 million could have gotten a good size one-bedroom apartment complex, or maybe two. With the second phase of this new market housing initiative that's going to be rolled out this next year and the new trailers and the redesign of the trailers, with the people who are now going to purchase these other units in Lutselk'e and other communities that these whole units went to, how is that going to offset the real market demand of low income families who demand market housing? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Robert Villeneuve on Question 481-15(3): Alternative Housing Options
In the Legislative Assembly on February 24th, 2005. See this statement in context.
Supplementary To Question 481-15(3): Alternative Housing Options
Question 481-15(3): Alternative Housing Options
Item 7: Oral Questions
February 23rd, 2005
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