Thank you, Mr. Chair. That's probably the biggest challenge in the delivery of housing, is ensuring that the LHOs and headquarters and the regional staff are all thinking on the same page when dealing with specific issues, especially with arrears and evictions and in LHO financing agreements with the GNWT and ECE. I just want to touch on one issue at the LHO level dealing with the vacancy rates that are applied to public housing rental units in the smaller communities. A vacancy rate of 6.1 percent I think is across the board in the NWT when setting rental rates for various public housing units. I just want to ask the Minister why is this vacancy rate of 6.1 being the bar, why hasn't it changed over the last number of years? I know vacancy rates are different all across the Territories. A lot of the people that live in public housing are transients, either be it in Yellowknife or some of the larger centres. So that raises the vacancy rates up for all of the smaller communities in which people usually remain in public housing. Therefore, we've got lower vacancy rates, but the rents reflect the vacancy rates in Yellowknife, which affect the smaller communities. Why does the department carry one rate territory wide as opposed to maybe a regional rate? Thank you.
Robert Villeneuve on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 12th, 2007. See this statement in context.
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 11th, 2007
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