Thank you, Madam Chair. I'd like to thank Mr. Ramsay for his questions. I definitely support the Member in regard to his request that we do look at more multi-constructed facilities, because it does cost us less to operate and you are able to house more people. We have made a decision that the 75 units that we're looking at replacing in public housing are going to be multi-constructed facilities. They won't be single dwellings. We are shifting away from that. So the 75 units that are identified to replace public housing will be multi-plex construction. You mentioned six or eight units and I think that is the way to go, and I think that because of the availability of land in communities and also because we have a large young population in a lot of our communities. We have forgotten a certain segment of our population where we've left out in regards to the construction of houses in the past where we look more at family dwellings and large housing units by stick-built units. I think we have to realize we're going that way.

The other issue that you raised in regards to Novel, we are looking at some options and one of the options is to look at stacking, instead of having them all on the ground in single-constructed formation. We are looking at the possibility of stacking them to have these multi-use units where you have instead of just one family using the site, you'll have two; in some cases, maybe four. We are looking at those as some of our options.

In regard to the issue of the seniors' facility, I know I did respond to you about the facility in Tuk. We have an update. There are five people occupying it now. We do have two more people on the waiting list to go in there, but they are waiting for the weather to warm up before they make the decision to move. There is an improvement to get more people in there. Again, it's an area that we do have to look at. Right now we have about 416 elders in seniors' facilities in the Northwest Territories. There is a large number of them that we do accommodate, but again, it's just trying to ensure that people making that shift from being in the unit they've been in for years and doing the transfer over to a seniors' facility. A lot of people are hesitant to move away from their family members and be on their own. They'd as soon stay together as a family. We do have these challenges. We are working with them.

In regards to the question the Member asked with respect to MACA and the lands, presently MACA does not do land development in communities. That responsibility is left to the developer. Because of that, we have to, as a developer not only of housing, develop property along with our responsibility. In most cases, your responsibility for putting the roads in, your responsibility for putting the culverts in, your responsibility for putting the power poles and lines in, all that is left to the responsibility of the individual person or contractor to do that. So MACA has devolved the responsibility to the communities, but they have not devolved the capital assets. In the past they used to do that; now they do not. So that's where we're having the differences. We are working with MACA to try to find a way that, like I mentioned, we only have one lands officer in our shop to try to figure out what lands are available, what titles we own, exactly what properties we have to put money aside to develop, when do we get the pilings in, when do we get the power poles in. All that is left to one individual in the Housing Corporation and I don't think that's fair. But we are working with MACA on that problem.

In regard to rent sup, yes, there have been long leases in place for rent sups, but again, we have gotten away from long-term commitments. We only commit five to 10 years at the most. But I understand where the Member is coming from. That was the practice in the past where they were trying to attract the private sector to get into providing housing in which those were the commitments made back then. Again, because of legal obligations, we can't get out of those. Once the term of those leases expire, then we will be re-looking at that. Thank you.