Thank you, Mr. Chair. There’s a number of programs we have in terms of the homelessness. I will just quickly go through them. The first ones are obviously the Homelessness Assistance Fund, which is about $125,000 per year and it provides support to individuals who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in terms of getting them out of that circumstance.
We have the Small Community Homelessness Fund which provides support for community organizations that are in our smallest communities that are providing things like soup kitchens as well as food banks, those sorts of activities, and we can provide a list of those that are being funded right now.
We have the Shelter Enhancement Fund, which is $100,000 that’s application-based for existing homelessness shelters to be able to provide support for capital improvements. That’s capital in the sense of the building envelope but also equipment that they may need to have as well.
Then we have the program we introduced last year, the Northern Pathways to Housing, which is about $280,000 in terms of the operation. That’s four, those four pilots on the transition housing in the smaller communities and we’re working with a number of community groups to get those projects started and I think we are getting some good input from a variety of communities.
Then lastly, as was mentioned, we are setting aside $150,000 to implement a Housing First model in Yellowknife and we will work closely with the Community Advisory Board here to come up with the best approach to do that particular project, but our resources would be focused on the infrastructure side of that and we would need to work out some of the processes in terms of identifying potential clients and making sure a variety of services are available.
That’s all of the homelessness funds we have available. Thank you, Mr. Chair.