Okay, I see here there's major retrofit, two units for public housing. There's two in Behchoko and one in Whati. And I said this morning too that, you know, in all the Northwest Territories, I know there's housing crisis and even in Behchoko alone, we have a housing crisis where I have -- there's a family -- there is a family, there's -- it's not just this family but there are other family, but this one has seven kids. Seven children, age ranging from 13 years old to one years old that are homeless in my community. And we have lots of housing that need retrofit too as well. There's some houses that have been boarded up for over ten years. And I just want to ask the Minister -- or, you know, the housing, I know she is the Finance minister, but what is the housing doing to try to eliminate homelessness in small communities? It's not just my communities. There are other communities as well. And we do have one homeless shelter and it's -- I mean, we do have -- it's -- we do need more houses to accommodate the homeless because this homeless shelter that we have, it's being used a lot by the communities and sometimes when it's full, what some of the -- we notice that homeless population do is that they go to jail. They go to the RCMP local station so that they can have a safe place to sleep. I mean, this is, like, two retrofit and one in Whati. Whati also has the same problem as well. We do have a lot of family in that community that are waiting for housing. And for Tlicho region, with over 2,000 population -- I'm just saying over 2,000. Behchoko is a little bit over 2,000 and Whati is, like, close to 600 now since the road opened, all-season road. But we do need more housing. So I just wanted to know what is this government trying -- what is this government doing? Can they commit to build more houses to accommodate and to eliminate the homelessness? I know it was the Premier's portfolio before to -- you know, it was the housing issues -- it was the housing responsibility but now it got transferred to Premier's office. So I just wanted to ask the Minister what are they doing, are they going to be building more houses any time soon? This one is for 2024-2025, that it's going to be completed in both communities. Thank you.
Jane Weyallon Armstrong on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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