Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as I mentioned, my questions are for the Minister of Housing NT. Can the Minister tell me how many homes of the 100 that's in the mandate that they said they would build in the Northwest Territories were built, not including any RCMP units? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes. Minister responsible for Housing NWT
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And thank you to the Member for the question. We did we do have a hundred-unit rollout that is currently underway right now.
Mr. Speaker, 47 of those homes in the communities are close to final inspection and would be available for occupancy. Another 14 of those units are being constructed and being delivered to various communities as well. And 17 are occupied today. 32 of those units are at various stages. And I would also like to include, Mr. Speaker, like, during the 100unit rollout, we did have the supply chain issue, the delivery issue, our barge issue that has happened, COVID, and restrictions of people coming into the communities. Despite all of that, Mr. Speaker, we are still on time. Mahsi.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And thank you to the Minister for that. And I'm glad that we do have some of those houses done and people are living in them.
Can the Minister tell us how many I know another part of the mandate was transferring homes to so people could become homeowners, and that way some of the, I guess, units to offset some of those units so we could build more and have more. So how many units have been transferred from Housing NT to individual families in the Northwest Territories? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And thank you to the Member for the question because this was a priority of mine as well too that I take right into my own riding.
We didn't have a very strong interest in people taking over their public housing unit and is not being able to afford those units as well too. I don't have the number specifically in front of me that, the amount of units that have been transferred over. But I know we did have some difficulty, and hopefully housing is listening to me right now so they can send that number over to me quickly so I could provide that to the Member. And also that, you know, I don't want to set people up for failure as well too, Mr. Speaker. I don't want to take too much of the Member's time but to be honest, a lot of our units are not in very in fair condition. We need to renovate them. We did get additional $60 million from the federal government, and in the next government we are committed to being repairing those units in the next Assembly. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And, you know, I know this question is not something that I sent over to the Minister, but just looking at my community alone, the Inuvialuit used some of the money that they received from the federal government to homeowners like, Inuvialuit beneficiaries in the ISR, to retrofit, put new windows, new siding, new insulation, windows, doors, roofs, you know, and they used they did it by starting with seniors. And so and looking at our units and the Minister just said that our units are old, they need to be fixed up. How did this department work with some of our Indigenous governments? Did they work with our Indigenous governments to maybe transition those homes to homeowners with working together? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And thank you to the Member for the question because she is speaking about the distinctionbased funding. And once again, I hope my department is hearing me because I want to get an update on the working table between IRC and the Housing NWT.
What housing has done differently is they've repaired the relationship with Indigenous governments and with community governments as well. And the funding that the Member is speaking about, there was approximately $400 million that was distributed amongst the Northwest Territories to directly to Indigenous governments. My conversation with the federal government was if you're not going to fund the territorial government directly, please recognize our partnerships with Indigenous governments and, in respect, Canada had responded, and this is the response as to getting houses on the ground. We are working in collaboration with them as well too. There is an established working group. My apologies to the Member, I didn't get the update, but I will provide that to her separately. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Minister. Final supplementary. Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. She just makes me want to ask way more questions, so I hope I have time to afterwards. Does the Minister have the current waitlist for housing and the empty units available, and when are those units going to be filled with our waitlist? Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And respectfully, I am enjoying the questions that are coming from the Member as well. There's been a significant progress within the portfolio, and this gives the opportunity of really highlighting the struggle that we do have with the funding that we do receive territorially but it also highlights the strength we do have with Canada as well too.
And just for the Members, we do have 57 applicants for a onebedroom. We have 12 applicants for a twobedroom. Seven applicants for a threebedroom. And four applicants for a fourbedroom. Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Minister. Oral questions. Member for Tu NedheWiilideh.
