Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I just want to follow up with a couple more questions to the Minister of housing. Just moving forward, though, before 2038 what are the Housing NWT's plans for their public housing assets and public housing debts? Thank you.
Thank you, Member from Tu NedheWiilideh. Minister of Housing NWT.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, there was two questions to that question. So the first question was on assets that the Northwest Territories or the Housing NWT holds and what the plans are for those homes, if I'm not mistaken.
From what I understand, we have over 300 homes that are 50 years and older, so Housing NWT is doing a review on those homes. And we also have many homes that are 30 years and older, so another we need to do another review on that.
In terms of the second question, I don't have that detail right now, but I can provide the Member information offline as well. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
(audio) anyway. Thank you. I was going to tease a little bit but thank you to the Minister for her answer.
Going forward, after as you know the 20th Assembly is going to be going through some fiscal constraints, etcetera. Can the Minister share with the House maybe as to how they're going to deal with their overall structure and maybe even staff and that kind of thing, so I just want to have an idea on that. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. A very general question and openended as well. What are we doing as Housing NWT realizing that one of the priority number one for this 20th Assembly is the affordability, suitability, and accessibility of housing. I think it's the 20th's responsibility to make sure that housing continues to be a priority of this government. And what we're going to do as Housing NWT to respond to this priority is some work that is being done and being done on the mandate and delivering that mandate to the House. So, again, we have to look at things. We have to analyze things. We have over a hundred staff with Housing NWT. We have 22 maybe local housing associations, organizations. So a lot of work being done at the local level. Like I mentioned, the housing units and the state of housing units, especially those that are 50 years and older, so a lot of concerns in that. Plus a declining fund with CMHC and the continued collaboration with our Indigenous governments. So a lot of work that's ongoing. And we hope to continue this work and continue these discussions so Housing NWT can be successful. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Mr. Speaker, thank you. And thank you to the Minister for her response. I guess while I'm thinking about it, the 20th Assembly has have priorities and housing is part of that. Going forward, though, in the next prior to 2038, if an Indigenous government wants to come forward to make application to CIRNAC, etcetera, how can we work with them in partnership to help guide them to make application for housing for their communities and homeownership repairs? Thank you.
Mr. Speaker, one of the great things of the 19th Assembly is it came up with the strategic renewal plan, and there's 42 initiatives with that strategic renewal, and the NWT Housing forum and the partnerships with Indigenous governments was introduced at the time and it continues to this day. So through the work of the NWT Housing forum and the Council of Leaders, NWT Housing or Housing NWT staff have these conversations on a daily basis with Indigenous governments. So I think the work continues. The discussions continue. We all want to see success for Housing NWT throughout the North, and we want to add more homes, and we also want to maintain the homes that we have in our current stock. So there's a lot of promise, and I hope to continue that work. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Minister of Housing NWT. Final supplementary. Member from Tu NedheWiilideh.
Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Minister. Going forward, can the housing corporation sorry, Housing NWT work with Indigenous governments to undertake projects in their community rather than have it tendered out in Yellowknife, and the communities are looking for work. They want to train their own people and that kind of thing. And that could probably be done through a partnership agreement or universal partnership agreement. Is that something the Minister could look at? Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. That's something I can look at. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
