Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the reason that we use the rent scale is to ensure that people don't take advantage of the social housing that we do have where it's based on the income of the whole household, not the individual. But we are looking at ways of getting people to sign co-leases with the elder and whatnot, because we found a lot of elders have found themselves in the situation where they do run into arrears and problems with arrears because individuals that have worked, their relatives and whatnot, have come lived with them and then have gone back to school or whatnot. But again, we're trying to find a way to be more flexible in that area, and one of the areas we are looking at is signing co-leases with other occupants of the unit instead of just the household. So we are looking at this problem and we're hoping to bring something forward. Thank you.
David Krutko on Question 398-15(4): Rent Scale Formulas And Social Housing In The Nwt
In the Legislative Assembly on February 14th, 2006. See this statement in context.
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Question 398-15(4): Rent Scale Formulas And Social Housing In The Nwt
Item 6: Oral Questions
February 13th, 2006
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