Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’ve said we’ve used those numbers, especially in some of the communities where the need is highest, we’re hoping to use those numbers to use it as a basis for allocating our resources in the future. I think the report came out last year. So this particular year we’ve tried to gear as many resources to some of the communities in higher need. So we’re hoping to be able to take care of some of the repairs that are going on in the community.
One thing I need to point out, Mr. Chair, is we’ve had homeownership units across the Northwest Territories for the last number of years and my understanding of a homeowner is once you were given one of these programs, and I keep meaning to look at the contract because I would have assumed it would say in there that you’re responsible for all the maintenance in your unit. In theory that was very good. What we’ve seen was a lot of the HAP clients, a lot of those that had to build their own units, they’ve looked after their units pretty good because they put a lot of sweat equity into it, but we’re having a lot of people now, we’re giving them units and they’re expecting us to do the maintenance. I mean, we’ll assist where possible, but I think what happened was we started doing a bit of maintenance on units that we had given to clients and then it just became an expectation. So we’re having to live with it now.
You see some clients out there that we never hear from. Their roof may need fixing, but they understand that it’s their responsibility as a homeowner to fix that roof. We work with those that want to apply for a homeownership loan and that where they make a payment back. We have no problem working with folks like that because we have a lot of folks where there’s a forgivable portion of it, but there’s also a portion that they pay back. So we continue to try and work with all those in the communities that need assistance.
Going back to the Member’s original point -- and I kind of went off on a rabbit trail, but going back to the Member’s original point -- we are trying to use the numbers that came out of the core needs survey to allocate our resources to some of the communities that are in most need. Thank you.