Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I move that this committee recommends that Housing Northwest Territories develop a first right of refusal clause in leasing agreements to ensure family members of tenants receive the first opportunity to lease a public housing unit before the unit goes to market. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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
In the Legislative Assembly on March 29th, 2023. See this topic in context.
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Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
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.
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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Jane Weyallon Armstrong Monfwi
Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, I do support this motion because we do have a lot of -- if you go to our warming shelter, you will see some of the family members who lost their house after parents passed because their name is not on the lease. And that policy created a lot of homelessness in many of the small communities in the Northwest Territories. And we didn't hear about it -- not just in our riding but in other -- other community as well because parents are aging, and these are their forever home, and even -- you know, like I did a Member's statement on it yesterday as well, because when these family are moved who lived in those houses for over 30 years, you know, there's emotion attached to that unit. That's their house. That's where they raised their family. That's where the grandkids were raised too as well. So I really -- I support this motion because if we don't have this there and families who lived in that house for so many years, we're making them go through another trauma. And that has to stop. So therefore I do support this motion that it ends there. Thank you.
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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
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Some Hon. Members
Question.
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The Chair Lesa Semmler
Question has been called. All those in favour? All those opposed? Abstentions? The motion is carried.
---Carried
Member for Kam Lake.