Thank you, Mr. Speaker. From my statement earlier today, I’d like to ask the Minister of Housing what is being done to address the need for housing for staff in the Mackenzie Delta communities. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Blake. Minister responsible for the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation, Mr. McLeod.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This was an issue that we had a discussion with the NWT Teachers’ Association about, and we had committed to them that we were going to do some work and see what we could do to provide houses in some of the communities where they face the most challenges, one of the communities being actually in the Member’s riding.
We have approximately 102 units right now that we are renting out. I believe 41 of those are taken up by teachers. We’ve converted many of our vacant units into units that could be available to teachers, and we are planning, in the future, to work in each community that has the most need and possibly put some more units into those communities. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
That actually answers the rest of my questions. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Mr. Blake. Member for Hay River South, Mrs. Groenewegen.
