Julian Morse

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So can the Minister help me better understand this a little bit better. So there's an income threshold that you have to be below in order to get it, and I'm assuming if you go above the threshold you're not eligible anymore. But wouldn't we think that people who were above a certain income threshold would be even better able to kind of own and operate a home? And so I kind of -- is that threshold really helping us in this program? I mean, certainly the idea of people starting to own a home, I mean that's the goal that we're trying to achieve here. So why do we even have a...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I wanted to ask about the homeownership initiative program. You know, it's one that receives a relatively small amount of funding, so I'll just start first question. Is the program fully subscribed every year; do we max out this funding? And if not, why not?

Okay, thank you. And I'd just like to build upon what the president just shared there. So if the goal is increasing stock and, you know, making sure that we've got enough resources to move people through the spectrum, can the president or Minister discuss what is being done particularly within the term of this Assembly to do that, to achieve that goal. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That's it for me.

Okay, thank you, Mr. Chair. Let me just check my notes here.

Yeah, if I could, Mr. Chair, I would just ask, this is a pretty high level and general question but falls into this area. I'd be curious how Housing NWT is doing in terms of making efforts on filling gaps in the northern housing continuum. I note -- have noted already that this is an item that Standing Committee on Social Development has been doing a lot of work on with their housing as a human right project and very much look forward to the recommendations that come out of that project. But how is Housing NWT supporting programs...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm glad I'm not the only Member that stumbles over our EC departments.

Mr. Chair, are there plans to update the disaster assistance policy? Thanks.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And actually that was going to be my next question was just so -- if the department has any details on any progress they've made on that item that, reestablish a third party operator for the Inuvik shelters, would appreciate knowing it. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That's all my questions for this page.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So, Mr. Speaker, you know, one of the ways that we're able to track this sort of thing and determine for ourselves and be engaged with our constituents is to see what's being brought forward. So does the Minister or the public administrator have any plans in place to establish some kind of a plan or list a set of actions that are going to be taken and, you know, maybe a timeline for how things will go down so that staff can see, you know, what actions are being taken, how their concerns are being heard and actioned? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And so, yeah, just to be crystal clear on this, have we lost these positions, or are they -- just the way that they're being funded has changed? So -- okay, Ms. Reid is over here -- sorry, Member from Great Slave seems to be confirming. But I just want to make sure that we haven't lost that capacity because certainly we -- you know, when I look at the policy and planning division description, we definitely need that going on in the department, housing being such a high priority of the Assembly. So if the Minister can just confirm we haven't lost the capacity within the...