Caroline Cochrane

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes. If a community does submit ten applications, each application would be considered within the community. We are talking about the small-community homeless fund. I want to make sure I am talking about the right program. Within the community of Yellowknife, or the southern communities, the maximum fund for that is $10,000. Within the northern communities, the maximum is $15,000. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Housing Corporation has changed its strategy, and so within the market communities we still offer subsidies for market housing. Within the smaller communities where there aren’t the market housing we are now providing the public housing for those needs. Our costs have actually decreased within that strategy. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Homelessness is a serious issue that we don’t take lightly. The HAF program, the Housing Assistance Fund is meant to provide one-time assistance so that people that are at risk or in homelessness situations can get the assistance needed to provide them with support so they can get into secure housing. However, within that, we recognize that there are some issues, so we really try to do counselling for people because often when people get to the point where they have lost their houses, there’s underlying issues. It could be poverty, it could be addictions, it could be a...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to just explain to the Members that the NWT Housing Corporation has been in market housing for quite a number of time. We’ve been providing market housing to the smaller communities because they don’t have the market community in their communities. We’ve been providing housing for professionals such as social workers, nurses, etcetera, teachers, for decades. It’s not like we’re starting something new. This is something that we’ve done for a long time and we continue to do. In fact, we have 400 units within the NWT that we provide that service for currently...

Thank you. I’ll let Mr. Anderson answer that, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The term pilot… There was funding for the four and three came forward. It is just about building capacity. We really want to make sure that the communities that take on these projects have the skills and abilities and the capacity to provide them and to do them to sustain the program. We want to make sure that we provide the proper support before we go forward and to expand that to make sure that they succeed. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, we commit to that. Thank you.

Mr. Anderson will take that, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. It is the same issue, but I will let Mr. Martin expand on that.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I was a bit confused in all honesty because the Member asked for the information on the Homeless Assistance Fund, but the Homeless Assistance Fund is actually one-time funding that people can access for up to $3,000. I am thinking that the question should have been the Northern Pathways to Housing, which is about putting in homeless shelters. If that is the case, then we have the three communities that we are putting the homeless shelters into and that is Simpson, Aklavik, and Behchoko. Then we have $70,000 in operational funding that we are giving to those communities...