Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. I agree with the Minister that we do have a major housing crisis here in the NWT and one of the major contributors to this crisis is people just don't want to pay rent. The reason why they don't want to pay rent is they are living in shoddy, dilapidated, mouldy houses. If the Minister can just look at a simple formula in the rent scale and say part of your rent is going to go towards fixing some of your mould problems and ice blocks on your windows. I think if you told people that, people would be more than happy to pay their rent on a regular basis, which doesn't happen today. I know many scenarios in my community where people just don't get their unhealthy living conditions addressed. So I want to ask the Minister again, can he sit down with his staff and commit to reviewing the whole rent scale of the NWT Housing Corporation? It obviously doesn't work for the Housing Corp; it doesn't work for the clients; it doesn't work for the LHOs. Could that be taken under serious consideration? Thank you.
Robert Villeneuve on Question 408-15(4): Rent Scale Funding Formula For Public Housing
In the Legislative Assembly on February 15th, 2006. See this statement in context.
Supplementary To Question 408-15(4): Rent Scale Funding Formula For Public Housing
Question 408-15(4): Rent Scale Funding Formula For Public Housing
Oral Questions
February 14th, 2006
Page 1051
See context to find out what was said next.