Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, under special circumstances, especially for medical reasons, we will hold the person's unit. If they have to go down south for treatment or whatnot, we will maintain those units. Again, the problem that we're having, especially with the LHOs, is we just don't have capacity for the number of people that are on our waiting lists. Roughly right now we have some 410 people on a waiting list to get into social housing. So because of the capacity issue, we're not able to accommodate, but the LHOs do make the decisions in regards to working with the clients and in most cases try to work with them by way of trying to sit them down and work out a payment plan if they have arrears, or try to make them aware that they do have to work off some of those arrears where they will hire them either locally or whatnot or give them a paint brush and say here, work so many hours so that you're able to work off your arrears. I think there's ways that they've tried to work with their clients, but again, because the biggest challenge we have is just the number of people that are on waiting lists, that's why we have such a shortage of not only houses, but also people that do get evicted or basically try to get back into the system, realize that you're at the bottom of the list and that there's other people ahead of you that are trying to get back into the system. So that's the biggest challenge we are facing right now, is because of the number of people that are on waiting lists and also to try to find ways of working with the clients to work off their arrears and try to make them aware that they do have responsibilities to work with them to work out those arrangements. Thank you.
David Krutko on Item 17: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 6th, 2006. See this statement in context.
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Item 17: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 17: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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