I’m glad to hear that the Minister wants to take a look into this. In this sense we get the young families who want to start out a family yet there’s no investment for them. I know some of them say they’ll take a two-bedroom house and even though they say they’ll accept it, under the policy they’re still not able to take it, even though they’re willing to say they’ll make do with what they have, just to get out of paying market rent and money just going into the rental area.
On the same side, we do get some singles where there are two-bedrooms available, but with some singles they say that they’ve got family members that would come over every once in awhile and a two-bedroom would fit.
I’m really glad to hear that it’s something that the department’s going to be looking into and hopefully we can maybe adjust some policies to look into that, because obviously we are in a housing shortage in some communities and in the North here.
Moving on, that was more of a comment to the answer the Minister gave. Under the maintenance management area and in terms of putting investment into these areas, how would the department look at which region’s communities get the brunt end of the dollars for maintenance? We talk about climate change and how it affects infrastructure. I’d imagine that in the coastal communities we’d have more housing units, the infrastructure kind of dwindling or declining compared to maybe some from the South. How does the Minister decide how they divvy up the money in terms of maintenance management?