Mr. Chair, could I then dare say that if these issues are not resolved in terms of the land tenure issues for housing that’s allocated for a
community and they’re still working on a land issue here, that this community, any communities, you know, would they lose their unit? Would it go to another community outside the region, within the region because the units are there? I think sometimes that’s under the impression of the leadership, that if we don’t get this unit, and because we know the urgency and the need for housing, that would make a, what do they call it, a time compressor, compressing time to be a quick decision. Sometimes it’s not good. That’s what I want to clear up.
The other one is that there are long outstanding issues with the community in terms of when the community is just coming to a settlement, and this goes back to some days when they just built houses wherever they were going to build houses. They put their houses up and then later, in the ‘70s, Housing comes in and starts acquiring land and start building public housing units, and some of these verbal agreements that Housing didn’t go back to. So it’s still in some people’s memory in terms of land that Housing took. It’s not theirs but they took it. It’s just the way things were at. That’s why it’s hard for some of the old-timers to really understand what the program is like. Some of the old-timers say, well, we had our old house here and it got ripped down and they put us into a new public housing and we don’t have our land back here. So a lot of issues and that underlying stuff like this here.
Those are some of the things that are being looked at in our communities. I guess the one question I have is for the Minister in terms of units when they’re designated or allocated to a community. I have some information that some of the houses are not there because the land is unavailable and they’re still working out the agreements. So are they still scheduled for that community?