David Krutko

Mr. Speaker, if anything, this is going to add to the existing investment that we are making for the 500 houses over the next three years going forward. It’s a perfect opportunity for the industries in the Northwest Territories, the manufacturing industry, the contracting business and also for the residents of the Northwest Territories to realize there are real job opportunities going forward with the investment and the efforts we are putting into housing in the Northwest Territories over the next 10 years. With regard to all these efforts we are putting forward, if anything, it’s going to...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, right now, with regard to the process, we do have FMBS, which is responsible for the financial…(inaudible)...from this government ensuring that any expenditures made by this government are aboveboard and within cost. CMHC, which is a federal agency, is also involved in this and they also want to ensure that accountability is there and that it is within the investment that they make and the cost they provide. So we are already doing that through the reviews and also the committees that have been established to oversee the project, which includes CMHC...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in regards to the collection of rent, we all know it is a problem in most of our communities, but especially in Behchoko we had a problem over the last number of years where we had a contract that was out where very little collections were done. There was a mandate given to our housing authorities which they have to collect 90 percent of their income by way of collections. We are moving in that way. Some two years ago, the collection rate was somewhere in the range of nine percent. We are now in the process of being up to 75 percent. We have...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the difference is the affordable housing will deliver 530 units, not 530 houses. Novel will deliver 830 houses. That is the difference. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we are talking about two different projects. The affordable housing initiative will put some 530 houses on the ground, but half of those houses that are going to be delivered are multi-configured construction. So they are going to take less land to put that many units on the ground. On the other areas that we are looking at is the Novel housing which are single dwelling units, which you are going to have to develop some 830 lots to put that many more houses on the ground. Also, with Novel, there is also going to be a project management cost associated...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as we all know, we do have a different arrangement now by way of how we do our collections because of the subsidy going to Education. I think we also have included them. So I am open to sitting down with my colleague, Mr. Dent, and yourself to see if there is a process that we can use here and try to find an arrangement that we all can move forward with. I do believe that it is a process that is being phased in. I think people are having some problems understanding exactly the differences between what we are doing now in housing and what is under the...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in regards to the collection of rent, we all know it is a problem in most of our communities, but especially in Behchoko we had a problem over the last number of years where we had a contract that was out where very little collections were done. There was a mandate given to our housing authorities which they have to collect 90 percent of their income by way of collections. We are moving in that way. Some two years ago, the collection rate was somewhere in the range of nine percent. We are now in the process of being up to 75 percent. We have...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the difference is the affordable housing will deliver 530 units, not 530 houses. Novel will deliver 830 houses. That is the difference. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we are talking about two different projects. The affordable housing initiative will put some 530 houses on the ground, but half of those houses that are going to be delivered are multi-configured construction. So they are going to take less land to put that many units on the ground. On the other areas that we are looking at is the Novel housing which are single dwelling units, which you are going to have to develop some 830 lots to put that many more houses on the ground. Also, with Novel, there is also going to be a project management cost associated...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we do allow the members to sit down with the people within the communities in regards to our housing authorities. If they have a discretion in regards to the amount that they are being paid, there is a process that they can go through in regards to working out a payment plan and also bringing in the verification on what their incomes were when that income was assessed. I think the problem that we are running into is because people work in the diamond industry and are moving in and out of the community where people are being hindered, especially our...