Thank you, Mr. Chair. We believe that the private sector can play a role in the supply of housing in the Northwest Territories. Through some of our third-party programs, I think we do work with private developers. In some of the communities we offer incentives for private developers to provide housing for professionals in their community.
The Disneyland, our plan is to have it vacant for now and then we’ll look at what different options we might have for that particular piece of property.
On the seniors that are selling their own homes, the Member makes a fair comment that there’s a gap between the time they sell their homes and they’re able to access public housing if that’s what they’re trying to get into, and it’s something that they may plan for before they sell their house, but it’s a fair comment, and I suppose it’s something that we’d need to have a look at to see where we can play a role there.
The point rating system, I think we designed the point rating system so they would be rated based on their need. We heard the concern so many times in a lot of the small communities that there was favouritism that was going on and we thought the point system would alleviate some of that. For the most part, I think it has. It’s unfortunate that the person that you speak of keeps getting bumped down the list again. I suppose we’d have to evaluate how things are done and how they’re rated. The fact that he had some income, as you mentioned, Mr. Bouchard, is probably one of the reasons that he kept getting bumped down the list, because his need didn’t seem to be as high as someone else’s. Again, we’ll look at that.
I think I touched on most of the Member’s concerns.