Question 249-16(3): Transfer Of Responsibility For Social Housing  Mr. Speaker, we did do an income assistance client satisfaction survey: 76.7 percent of the response was satisfied with the outcome of the assistance, 10.3 percent said they are satisfied. So 76 percent is the number we are using. Just recently, December, January, we did a conduc

Question 251-16(3): Transfer Of Responsibility For Social Housing  Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Certainly when the transfer took effect, there was an income security reform established at that time. Part of that is to deal with the subsidies at hand. There is a plan in place since 2005. We are continuing to work with the plan and also expanding if we nee

Question 251-16(3): Transfer Of Responsibility For Social Housing  Mr. Speaker, any new initiative that comes before this House is presented to the standing committee. Previous governments had their own government at that time. Today, the 16th Assembly, we follow the principle that is before us. I can certainly easily share that with the stand

Question 251-16(3): Transfer Of Responsibility For Social Housing  Mr. Speaker, certainly that is one of the areas that we are looking at, myself and the Minister of the Housing Corporation. We will be before the standing committee to highlight what we have done to date. The plan initiated in 2005 in April until today where we are, where we need

Question 251-16(3): Transfer Of Responsibility For Social Housing  Mr. Speaker, within our department there are different types of reviews that are undertaken. Since the transfer of the program in 2005 until today, we have conducted several reviews to see what is working and what is not working. We continue, as I stated earlier, Mr. Speaker, a

Question 254-16(3): Transfer Of Responsibility For Social Housing And Training Provided For Staff  Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Certainly we do provide in-house training as well. There is training being conducted with LHOs and how to deal with administration of the program itself and also our regional staff that deal with income security level. There is continuous training that happens

Question 254-16(3): Transfer Of Responsibility For Social Housing And Training Provided For Staff  Mr. Speaker, the positions that we have within our system do more than just public housing rental subsidy. As I indicated, we do have various subsidy programs and even at the regional level, isolated communities, we have to expand the roles of our client service officers, not jus

Question 254-16(3): Transfer Of Responsibility For Social Housing And Training Provided For Staff  Mr. Speaker, there were no positions transferred to ECE. We had to create positions to deal with the program that was transferred to us. With that, we had to expand their roles to deal with all the subsidy programs as a one-window approach. Their role has been expanded and it’s j

Question 254-16(3): Transfer Of Responsibility For Social Housing And Training Provided For Staff  Mr. Speaker, I did highlight all the subsidies that we deliver. Just to highlight the positions that we have, it is spread out into the communities, small communities that never had those kinds of positions before when the Housing Corporation had that under their umbrella. We’ve

Question 256-16(3): Transfer Of Responsibility For Social Housing  Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Certainly that is one of the areas that we continue to look at, how we can improve in certain programs, certain delivery areas. We are looking at our options. As we indicated to the House, we’re going to sit down and look at, I guess overall since 2005, what w

Question 256-16(3): Transfer Of Responsibility For Social Housing  Mr. Speaker, we have had quite a few get-togethers with the LHOs’ client service officers and even at the housing authority. This is where we discuss the challenges that we may be faced with. We had numerous workshops on some areas that we may be challenged with. At the same time

Question 256-16(3): Transfer Of Responsibility For Social Housing  Mr. Speaker, I think I made myself clear that we are sitting down to deal with this matter. Certainly I think there is connectivity. We provide all kinds of subsidies along with the LHOs. We work closely with the LHOs. We’re not distant where one community can’t access a subsidy.

Question 256-16(3): Transfer Of Responsibility For Social Housing  I think I stated five or six times that we will be sitting down. We’ve developed a plan and we’re doing a review. I don’t know what else I can say on a moving-forward basis. We are making progress. We are making improvements to our program. I think we have proven to ourselves wit

Question 258-16(3): Income Support Workers And Transfer Of Responsibility For Social Housing  Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Some of the areas that we’ve improved our service delivery when the transfer came into play were additions. The positions in these areas would be Yellowknife, Inuvik, Ulukhaktok, Fort Smith, Hay River, Deline, Norman Wells, Behchoko, Whati.

Question 258-16(3): Income Support Workers And Transfer Of Responsibility For Social Housing  I do not have the detail information before me as we speak today. I can certainly provide that to the Member.