Thank you, Mr. Chair. I certainly hope before the end of session. That said, can the Minister tell me what the net positive impact on new housing opportunities through public housing will be in the city of Yellowknife? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Minister McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. As I said before, one of the challenges we’re facing is

we are doing a lot of replacing of public housing, not so much new public housing. We are doing a 19-unit apartment in Niven Lake. As far as future goes, we are doing mostly replacement units. We have, I think, through the ECE transfer program, we have taken over I believe 55 units. The program went through ECE before. They transferred the money to us and then we, in turn, leased a unit from I think it was a private landlord and we put income support clients in those units. We turned them into public housing, so there has been a bit of an increase there but it is, as I said before, a bit of a challenge and is one that we are working towards trying to find solutions for. Thank you.

Other than the Niven Lake… No,

sorry. Niven Lake unit, that will put 19 new doors on the market in the Yellowknife area. There are no other new doors being added to this community?

I believe that’s what I

said. We are challenged and we have the 19 doors now, the 55 we got through the Income Support Program, and other than that, that is where we are at right now. Thank you.

It is my understanding that Yellowknife suffers as the community with the largest need, so not necessarily percentage but certainly in the context of actual numbers.

Can the Minister confirm that? Can he also tell me how many people are waiting on the public housing list in Yellowknife? Thank you.

In answer to the first question, yes. Second question, we have a waiting list of 146 people on the public housing wait-list in Yellowknife. Again, I think some of these families have to be on the wait-list to access the Income Support Program, so they may already have a roof over their head but because they need to access the Income Support Program, they need to be on the local public housing wait-list. Thank you.

Under this particular circumstance – and now I am going to take a leap in a different direction

– what seniors housing does the

Department of Housing support in Yellowknife? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Mr. Anderson.

Thank you, Mr. Anderson. Mr. Hawkins.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Thank you for that and thank you for the recap on those places. Can the Minister tell me how many doors we support in each of those locations? So, Mary Murphy, NUP, Aven Ridge and Aven Manor. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Minister McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I commit to providing the Member a list of the doors. We don’t have that information with us right now and I’m not even going to guess. Thank you.

Thank you. I’ll take it that will be

before the end of session. That said, has the Minister been approached in the last two years by any community group in Yellowknife to extend the opportunity of housing for seniors? Thank you.

Mr. Chair, we have had discussions with the Canada Winter Games folks about the possibility of having an athletes village and helping them build an athletes village. At the end of the Games, we would turn one of those facilities into a seniors complex and the other one into public housing. Thank you.

Has Housing been approached by anyone at Avens?

Does Housing intend to be involved or support the expansion initiative over at Avens for seniors?

Yes, we’ll continue to

work with the groups that are involved and see if there are some ways that we can be a part of the process. Thank you.

Does that mean that the Housing Corporation will in all likelihood provide a cash support to an initiative w

hen it’s ready to be received

if asked upon by Avens?

Mr. Chair, we’ll be a part

of the group there and if there are opportunities for us to provide some input and be a part of the process, and even if there was a cash contribution the

n it would be part of future Housing Corporation’s

capital plan.

Thank you. At present, I know it’s

a moving number, the 146 mentioned earlier. Do we have any breakdown of what that actually is? Single people? Single parents with children? Dual parents

without kids, with kids? How many are seniors? Especially certainly the last one by all means, but those types of statistics and breakdown to the numbers. Thank you.

Mr. Chair, I believe we just signed it off today, the breakdown, and we will provide it to all the Members.