Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In my Member’s statement I talked about the possibility of the homeless people in the Sahtu communities and other communities who face the issue of the eviction notices and termination of public housing units. This is all due to a number of attempts to collect arrears payments to the units. I want to ask the Minister, in his review of the Shelter Policy for the NWT Housing Corporation, if there is going to be a policy where tenants like these that are very high in arrears can have some other options such as working off their arrears or looking at some garnishment for payment to make towards the arrears or volunteering their services in a monetary amount to work off. If there is anything that would keep them from being evicted and keep them in the house and learning also at the same time what it takes to maintain a public housing unit.
Norman Yakeleya on Question 110-16(6): Public Housing Rental Arrears
In the Legislative Assembly on May 18th, 2011. See this statement in context.
Question 110-16(6): Public Housing Rental Arrears
Oral Questions
May 17th, 2011
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