Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, one thing that we realized is that we do have to find ways to provide housing while realizing we have units that need to be taken offline because of the operations and maintenance costs. We also have the sale of public housing initiative, where we're selling off public housing to clients in the private sector. What we're doing is we're taking the money from these sales and putting them into new housing construction, by way of more single-dwelling units, eight-plexes, 12-plexes, and those types of housing. We realize, at the end of the day, it's more economically-efficient to operate those types of units than single dwellings. So this year I believe the number we're aiming for is 40 to 50 units, based on the 2,300 units we have in public housing. Again, it's a projected number of what we're looking at. If we can sell off 40 to 50 units and take that money and put it back into building these multi-plex structures to meet more of the needs...One thing we're finding again is that the big demand that's out there right now is for single housing. That's the initiative we're working on.
David Krutko on Committee Motion 25-15(3) Recommendation To Accelerate The Planning Of A Gymnasium For Nahanni Butte, Carried
In the Legislative Assembly on March 1st, 2005. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 25-15(3) Recommendation To Accelerate The Planning Of A Gymnasium For Nahanni Butte, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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