Mr. Speaker, I have a return to written question 29-19(2) asked by the Member for Kam Lake on March 31st, 2021, regarding vacancy rates in housing programs.
The Member enquired about the number of vacant units by program and community as of March 31, 2021. Later today, at the appropriate time, I will table this information.
The Member also enquired about how long each vacant unit has been vacant. The NWT Housing Corporation does track this information, but the IT system is unable to generate a single report that covers this metric for all vacant Housing Corporation units. The Northwest Territories Housing Corporation is always striving to improve its IT system and this may present an opportunity for future development in the relevant software.