Thank you. Member for Hay River South.
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Rocky Simpson Hay River South
Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess the first question is you mentioned there was 122 -- or 102 empty units that are being renovated. Can you tell me how many tenants had to be relocated and -- from those units. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Paulie Chinna Sahtu
Thank you, Madam Chair. For -- I don't have that level of detail. I'll have President Young respond. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Young
Thank you, Madam Chair, and of the 102 units, counted in that would also be, for example, units that we currently have set aside for COVID so there aren't any people being displaced in that case. Or units that we have, for example, renovated after someone's moved out and before someone else moves in. So I would have to go back and get detail on how many of those are actually units where there are tenants who have been moved somewhere else while their unit's being done, but it would not be all of them. It would be quite a lesser amount because most of the time, we try to plan that work so that we displace tenants as little as possible and do it as we can work with the life cycle of -- or the cycle of the movement of tenants. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Rocky Simpson Hay River South
Thank you, Madam Chair. I'd ask the Minister as well, you know, if we have -- if tenants have to be relocated, who covers that cost, and are the tenants -- once the retrofit is done, are the tenants, the original tenants, allowed back in. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Young
Thank you, Madam Chair. So if there are costs such as disconnection of power, reconnection of power, the Housing Corporation would pick up costs such as that but other -- you know, other moving costs would be the tenant themselves. The LHO, I believe, would assist where possible but again, looking at each individual's circumstance -- I'm sorry, I think I missed the rest of the question. Sorry, Madam Chair.
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Rocky Simpson Hay River South
I'll just move on here; I think I kind of got the gist of it there.
I guess the next one is that -- and I think the Member for Kam Lake alluded to this; I'm not sure if she got the answer. There are 102 units vacant and being renovated. Can you tell me how many units are just sitting empty that are not being renovated? Thank you.
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Paulie Chinna Sahtu
Thank you, Madam Chair. I'll have Vice-President Martin respond as I don't -- you know, all units are not being constructed and renovated all at once, and I'll have him elaborate. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Martin
Okay, thank you, Madam Chair. So -- so as mentioned, there's 102 units that are under repair, that are vacant at this time.
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The Chair Lesa Semmler
Thank you. That's it? [Audio] Of all the units that are vacant, you said that there's 102 vacant units before, for Kam Lake, and that they're all been -- they're all allocated funding to repair but what -- I think there's a confusion that there's empty units in the Northwest Territories that haven't been fixed that are Housing Corporation that are sitting there not being allocated dollars to repair them. So do you have that number, if I'm -- is that clear, Member for Hay River South.
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Rocky Simpson Hay River South
There's 102 vacant units being renovated, based on what's in this document. Beyond that, are there units that aren't in this document that are vacant and just sitting there in communities? Thank you.
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Paulie Chinna Sahtu
Thank you, Madam Chair. I'll have President Young respond. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Young
So thank you, Madam Chair. Of the 102 units, approximately 23 of those units are examples like the COVID units, units where we have completed a project but the units have not yet been occupied. So there's a total of 23 there. The remaining units are units that are either currently under repair or will be under repair and as Jim said, we've either got the money, or we'll be dealing with the budget for that internally and don't need any additional funding to deal with the 102 units that we've identified currently as vacant units. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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