Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’m glad the Member raised that because it is an issue that I’ve been dealing with on a number of occasions too. We follow the National Occupancy Standards and that’s something that we’re evaluating to see where we’re at with that. In many cases we get people who are approved for a home but there’s only a two-bedroom home available. They say they may be under-housed or over-housed so they’re not able to access that unit, or there may be a three-bedroom and according to National Occupancy Standards they can only qualify for a two-bedroom.
We have to look at what works best for the Northwest Territories and that’s something that I’ve asked the corporation to do. Because if you’re a young family just starting out, they say you’re qualified for a two-bedroom, your family may grow in a number of years. If you can get into a three, why not; because you will grow into it. It’s something that is on our radar and something that I have talked to senior management about, because I feel this is an issue we really have to address, because we do have people that are happy as heck because they’re approved for a home, only to be disappointed because they don’t qualify for a three-bedroom even though they’ve got a young child and they’re just starting out and they may have more children. Then they’ll be coming and asking for
more money to build an addition onto their two-bedroom house so that their family can fit into it. So we need to look at that.