Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just in regards to the Members’ first concern with the old northern territorials, and he is correct, we try and take, as we put new public housing units into the system, some of the older ones out, because a lot of them are beyond economic repair. Those are the ones that we would take out first. The Weber units, I think are almost the next in line for that. We still find that the Weber units, a lot of them have gone through a retrofit probably within the last 10 years, so there is still some life left in those.
The northern territorials are basically all out of the inventory now, so as we bring new units in, we take some of the older ones out, ones that we just can’t fix anymore and have been repaired maybe four or five times. That is something that we are looking at.
As far as looking at the different demographics and designing our homes we have, in some communities, seniors units in some of the communities and so we are able to do our part in keeping the seniors in the communities, especially those that are fairly independent. The design is part of what we are incorporating into our new public housing and homeownership design. You see with some the LHOs before the corporation started designing a lot of these units to accommodate those that are disabled and seniors. Some of the LHOs would designate some of their own units as seniors or disabled units and they do the necessary retrofit, so that is one that we recognize is getting to be... The seniors especially, we just had, I think, a new seniors five-plex open in one of the Sahtu communities. So it is one that we recognize that we need to go to more of a multi-type unit. We have a lot of seniors still staying in some of the older public housing but you are kind of reluctant to move some
of them out because they have been in there for basically the last 40 to 45 years and they are given an option if they maybe want to take a smaller unit, but we figure at this point it would do them more harm than good to move them out of there. So we try and recognize the fact that they have become quite attached to some of the units that they are in. But as far as going forward and into our new designs, this is something that we are trying to incorporate and all future design will be able to accommodate seniors and those with disabilities. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.