Thank you. And first of all on housing, I just want to just briefly talk about housing.
I just want to mention that I'm also a carpenter by trade. I've worked all over the North, worked for some big companies, worked as an independent consultant, been to many meetings in the North in regards to the Dene Nation, Akaitcho, etcetera, and front and center is housing. And from the people I've been talking to up and down the Valley and also in our constituents, they say housing is broken, the policies don't work anymore for our people.
And so when I look at your plan here, and I really like looking at your -- the four-year plan that's been put together here by the MLA here last -- in 2019 and 2023, and housing's in there, and I like the way they're talking about moving towards working with Indigenous governments to look at building relationships. That's important.
We hear all the issues on housing but nothing seems to get done. They say policies are barriers. I have a constituent in my community of Lutselk'e whose bathtub is, right now it's filled up with sewer. And that person there was told that he can't get a program to fix that repair because he makes too much money. And then if he ever tried to sell that house or turn that house over to the daughter, then they don't make enough money to qualify for a program. So I'm concerned that when we say we're going to work together and start working with Indigenous governments, then we should really do something about it.
Right now, we're seeing that -- my constituent right now for public housing repairs -- or sorry, just to fix up your assets, the Housing Corporation assets, it's $3.4 million. But there's nothing there for repairs, homeownership repairs. Even if we had money, we still got to jump through hurdles to get that money. So if you want to work together, it seems like the Housing Corporation's applying for money through the same department in CIRNAC, and it's First Nations now, it seems like we're competing for money now for housing. We're not working together. We're not working with aboriginal governments.
You know, if want we can fix this problem we all got to work together. And the thing is that we talked about co-investment. How is that going to work if we come together trying to deal with some of these monies that you are applying for from Ottawa? My question is, is your policy going to continue to apply? Because right now, I got constituent members in Lutselk'e that are really dire hard in need of homeownership repairs. Not to mention the policies that are -- that created a lot of these problems in our community, we have a lot of vacant homes that are sitting idle in Fort Resolution. We may have about 20 maybe homes there, that are sitting idle. Same thing in Lutselk'e, N'dilo, and Dettah.
So going forward, I mean I don't have any issues with the staff or anything like that. I just want to make a point here is that this issue is not going to go away. We all need to work together to fix this problem. I applaud my colleague here, asking that we need $20 million for housing. That's not enough. We need more money for fixing these houses to meet it, the demands in our communities. But going forward, right now the communities are saying, oh, we don't like to work with the Housing Corporation because their policies don't work for us. Now we're going to work with Ottawa and try to get our own money.
So to me, when you listen, that's what they're saying. So we got to fix that relationship with Indigenous governments going forward and work together. No longer creating policies that only suit one side. If anything, we should be -- the monies that we get going forward, whether it be the National Housing Strategy or co-investment or anything like that, maybe it's time that we start working -- Indigenous government and do a contribution agreement. So that way here, the communities have the ability to do the work. But most importantly, what I see in here is that we want to create jobs. People are looking for work. So Madam Chairman, I just want just mention that because housing is important, and we got to fix it. Mahsi.