The policy that we are speaking about right now is actually not an easy policy; it's very difficult. The reason that we did put on a time line of the forgivable loans starting to come off after five years and up to a ten-year period is because we found that, when we were doing the loans to people — some people, not all, in fairness — some of the people that we were providing the loans to were actually turning around and selling the units soon after they'd gotten the loans. So they had fixed up their house, gotten up to $100,000 on taxpayers' money, and then turned around and sold the unit. So that wasn't fair, and that still is not a fair way. So we do have to be really careful with that policy, that we make sure that we are not penalizing people who do inherit houses and yet we don't put it back to the place where people actually can sell the units and there is no payback to the Housing Corporation.
Caroline Cochrane on Question 420-18(2): Repayment Of Inherited Care Program Debt
In the Legislative Assembly on October 28th, 2016. See this statement in context.
Question 420-18(2): Repayment Of Inherited Care Program Debt
Oral Questions
October 27th, 2016
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