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Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. To my left I have Mr. Tom Williams, deputy minister of MACA; and to my right, Ms. Eleanor Young, who is the assistant deputy minister of MACA.
Mr. Chair, I believe we just signed it off today, the breakdown, and we will provide it to all the Members.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. That’s a direction that we’re going in the future. If you notice, a lot of communities there are a lot of detached, very large houses, and as we’re taking those out of stock we’re going to more of a multi-unit type of configuration. I think we have up to 68 percent of our units that we have now are multi-unit type of configuration. We find there are many benefits to that. We find that we’re needing smaller units now instead of the big five-bedroom Webers we used to have. So, that’s the direction the Housing Corporation is taking in the future and there’s a trickle-down...
Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. With me I have to my right, Mr. Mark Warren, deputy minister of Lands; and to my left, Brenda Hilderman. She is the director of corporate services.
Yes, we’ll continue to work with the groups that are involved and see if there are some ways that we can be a part of the process. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, I would.
Yes, as I committed before and I’ll commit again, we will have a look at it and continue to try and improve our programs as we have done for the last number of years with the help of this Legislative Assembly. So, we will continue to try, not try, we will continue to improve our programs and help those seniors, those with mobility issues, the disabled and all those who are in need the best we can. Thank you.
Mr. Chair, we have had discussions with the Canada Winter Games folks about the possibility of having an athletes village and helping them build an athletes village. At the end of the Games, we would turn one of those facilities into a seniors complex and the other one into public housing. Thank you.
Thank you. We can provide technical advice, and as far as the actual project itself goes, the communities have all gone and found someone to do the design for them. They’ve actually led the contract themselves in most cases, hired their own project managers. They’ve actually been able to do it probably less expensively than we could have as a government, because every time you see the little polar bear there, prices seem to go up a little higher.
When the community goes looking for prices, it gives them a few options and I think we’ve found that they’ve been able to get some product on the...
We have a number of programs within the NWT Housing Corporation that the uptake in the programs is from the seniors themselves. We have the Mobility Policy now where we work with those who have mobility issues and we have a number of programs designed for seniors. We have the Preventative Maintenance Program. So, we have a number of programs. A couple of them are designed specifically for seniors and those with mobility issues, and we also have, as far as our CARE program goes, the greater percentage is taken by seniors. Thank you.