Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, in regards to the Member's first question about how we're going to deal with 50 percent of the units that we're looking at for sale of the 1,400 units, right now we've acquired some 600 clients who own their own homes, they're our EDAP program. Out of that, they were able to acquire almost $46 million from bank financing. I think this EDAP program will continue on into the future. So there's an existing program that can assist people to get into homeownership, and that's an area that we're going to offer.
Also, we are laying out a new program that we are going to be delivering into the future. So these programs will continue, in which we're hoping to be able to stimulate homeownership through those programs we already have.
In regards to the issue of market housing, yes, the intention was to provide housing to people in communities to basically assist professionals to stay in our communities and also to provide services. Someone that's local or whatnot that works for the band, or works for the municipal council, or provides a municipal service, they also provide a service to people in communities. So I don't know why we're trying to put people in different boxes, saying, well, this was only for you. The program was a general program out there to offer the communities houses where there is a shortage of houses in non-market communities. So this offers an alternative to one time where we provided so-called staff housing. We are no longer doing that. The idea was that we had to provide housing in those communities at a cost-recovery basis, either through rents or basically being able to sell them off and recoup our costs. That, for me, is, if anything, the program is now showing that it is successful, out of the 22 units we originally started with where we have one vacancy in Fort Resolution. That tells me that people are now taking up these units; they're moving into them and they're acquiring them by way of purchasing them outright. For me, that's a good thing.
I think in regards to the other 22 units, to accommodate the professions and arguments, we heard that these units were too big. The second 22 units that we're putting on the ground are duplex configuration where, basically, they're independent, two-unit modular homes which will offer teachers, or nurses, or whatnot, that they'll have independence of their unit where you can accommodate two people in one unit, again which cuts down the costs to be able to deliver that by way of your transportation cost, your land development cost, and also being able to...The operational costs have also come down. So again, that's how we've been able to evolve this so far.
I think that anything, it has provided an option or opportunity to professions, people providing programs, services in communities without having to be classified, which now is being taken up by people in those communities. Thank you.