Thank you, Madam Chair. Sorry, I jumped the gun there. We heard about this a lot in our travels to communities. And what spurred this motion is there are families who have lived in public housing units for decades, and unfortunately when an elder who is the leaseholder passes away, their children and grandchildren and nieces and nephews who live in that unit with them, and have spent their entire lives calling that unit home, find themselves homeless and at the bottom of a housing waitlist because they are not the leaseholder, and they have no claim to that home. And so this motion is calling on a mechanism for those family members that have called that unit home for decades, and for their entire lives, a way to be able to add themselves to the lease and continue living in that home. Thank you, Madam Chair.
Caitlin Cleveland on Committee Motion 436-19(2): Committee Report 47-19(2): Homelessness Prevention: Supporting Pathways to Housing NWT Residents - First Right of Refusal for Family Members, Carried
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Committee Motion 436-19(2): Committee Report 47-19(2): Homelessness Prevention: Supporting Pathways to Housing NWT Residents - First Right of Refusal for Family Members, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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