Thank you, Mr. Chair. Again, we appreciate the Member’s comments on the work that the NWT Housing Corporation is doing, and his committee is actually the one that we report to, so we’ve had a lot of interaction with the Social Programs committee. We appreciate the comments.

The Member was talking about the units for seniors and people with disabilities. We have a visible design that we incorporate into all our new units now that we build. So that is there.

The bachelor units in Inuvik, those are actually being replaced. We have a contract that’s been let and work was supposed to be underway. So those are being replaced.

We have one pilot project, and the Member was talking about the hard to house. In some of the larger centres, some of the regional centres are a little more fortunate because they have groups and organizations in the community that give people an

option. But some of the small communities, there’s really no option there. We’ve tried a pilot program, and I think we’ve had three take us up on it right now. We still have one more that we’re hoping went out there, and that was for an initiative in the communities for a hard-to-house type of unit where we do a little bit of renovations and work with the local group to look over the house first. Of course, there will be some compensation for them to maintain the unit for us. So we have had three communities take us up on that and we still have, I think one more that’s available.

So we try to do what we can to address. Again, there’s a number of reasons that people are homeless. Addictions issues, obviously, is one of them. A lot of them have been evicted from the units that they’re in because of the addictions issues. So it’s a struggle to try and find a balance, but we try to find some pilot projects and we support others that give them a chance to get out of the situation they’re in and hopefully turn their life around and be able to get back into public housing.

Being involved in housing for as long as I have, I’ve seen it firsthand where folks have been given another chance and they’ve gotten it and run with it and done quite well. So if there’s any way that we can assist, it’s those options that we look at. Thank you.