I can assure Members of this House that we try having a little bit of flexibility in some of these cases. We do, obviously, I mean we all know that we need some rules, otherwise we’d have just anybody in those units and we may set up a lot of people for failure, which has happened in the past.
As far as the vacant units go, Members of the 16th Assembly will recall that we had 137 vacant units across the Northwest Territories. We had a number in Fort Resolution, we had a number in Gameti. We’ve had a fairly aggressive program in trying to fill them.
We’ve updated Members at the end of the 16th as
to our strategy. Most of these units, to my understanding, have been filled. The ones that we couldn’t get public housing clients into, we converted to public housing. The communities that didn’t have public housing, we’ve entered into some agreements with the local band government to provide the administration and maintenance, where possible, on these. I’m going to commit that I will follow up on the number of vacant units we have across the Northwest Territories, home ownership units. I know there’s always going to be a vacancy. There’s going to be a vacancy in public housing units because we need to get these worked on. I will follow up on the number of vacant units across the Northwest Territories and provide the information to all the Members.