Caroline Cochrane

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Again I am a bit confused with the question. If it is the homelessness initiative, that is the housing assistance funding. That is the $3,000 application base. If we are talking about the Small Community Homelessness Fund, that is also application based. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That was actually federal money that was one-time funded. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Mr. Speaker, the Government of the Northwest Territories has made a commitment it its mandate to work in partnership with other orders of government to address affordable housing requirements and to support Aboriginal local governments in their housing aspirations and initiatives to address homelessness. We are delivering on that commitment, and I am pleased to tell you today that a new partnership initiative between the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation and K’atlodeeche First Nation that will let us deliver housing services and programs on reserve land. The core housing need for the...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We’re projecting that the scope of work for the project managers will be very small. It would just be during the construction phase. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just want clarification on the question. Is he asking the number of staff? Or is he just wanting clarification that it is what is covered under here?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The process to fund the communities was actually put out a couple of years ago. We submitted out to all the communities. Actually, at that time we had funding to look at four. Only three communities came forward at that time. We worked with the three communities to set them up. They are just getting structured in now because it takes some time within government. When we look at expanding that, then we would be again submitting a request to all communities that don’t have that in and asking them to come forward and see if they would be interested. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Within a month the Members will have that information. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’ll let Mr. Anderson answer that.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That is actually covered within the community housing services which is on page 361.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We have the finances for 30 renovations. We will be meeting… All of the interested parties who submit their names forward will be pulled together into a group. We will be negotiating with those groups. We do, however, recognize that there is a greater population of men within the communities who are homeless. We would be advocating strongly within the group to provide support to that. I will let any interested parties that come forward… It would be their decision on how that is divided. Thank you, Mr. Chair.