We understand the advantages of getting people off the streets and into public housing. That’s why there’s public housing. We have 24 public housing units across the Northwest Territories, and from public housing we like to think that a lot of them can graduate into the home ownership program.
We have approximately 1,600 families we’ve been able to put into the home ownership program over a number of years. We try to be as flexible as possible in getting as many people into some of these programs as we can. For example, with one of the home ownership programs, we allow them to carry up to $5,000 in arrears. We’ve had a very good look at the whole shelter policy review, the whole home ownership portfolio. We try to be as flexible as possible to get people into some of these units. Unfortunately, some of them are turned down for other reasons than arrears.