The Member has been very diligent in bringing concerns of his constituents forward. Unfortunately, some of the decisions that are made are ones th
at he wasn’t aware of or
because of one reason or another, folks were declined for some of the programs.
We have done a number of things to try and get as many people qualified for programs as possible. I think we have one affordable housing unit left in Detah and our desire would have been to find a suitable client to put into that unit. Failing that, as we
did in some of the other communities, we have actually turned it into a public housing unit.
The corporation is well aware of the challenge that we face out there. We just had a meeting out there recently and, again, it was pointed out about some of the vacant units and we are working the steps to try and address that. Hopefully, we are able to do that soon.
Ideally, we would like to have clients for all of our HELP units that we put on the ground, try to get people transitioned into homeownership. For one reason or another, we seem to be, not only in that community but we seem to in other communities, we have been challenged to get people who are qualified. We have changed some of our criteria to try to make them qualified, and for one reason or another we have managed to get a few in. The ones that we haven’t been able to use, we have turned them into public housing units. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I went on a little too long.