Lucy Kuptana

Thank you, Madam Chair. With that social housing agreement that was signed in 1997 with CMHC, they funded the operations and maintenance of our public housing units up until 2038 but the one thing with that agreement was it's slowly declining year by year. And then the federal government, back in -- I think it was 2018 or 2019 signed a bilateral agreement with Housing NWT and the Government of Northwest Territories to supplement that social housing agreement that was signed back in 1997. So the bilateral agreement -- and that was through the national housing fund -- was signed and provided...

Thank you, Madam Chair. President Kelly will provide more in-depth information related to this question, because it's daily conversations with IGs, Indigenous governments, especially those that we've signed MOAs and MOUs with. So President Kelly will provide more information related to this. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Housing NWT increased the number of apprentices from 12 to 15 in the most recent fiscal year. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Housing NWT really wants to improve our programs and the outreach, and I've asked staff and asked the president if we could expand it to the smaller communities. They're currently looking at that and they will review applications, like on a one-off basis now right now until we get a firm policy in place. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Our homeownership programs and home repair programs have been -- are being reviewed by Housing NWT presently. And President Kelly can provide more information in terms of the details related to the reviews. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. With the administration funding of $7.74 million, that's funding our local LHOs for their administrative staff within the LHO. And then in terms of maintenance, it's $15.182 million, and that's for the LHOs to undertake demand and preventative maintenance activities. So LHOs are provided funding for maintenance, and LHOs are provided funding for administration. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Madam Chair, I think it's really important that housing with our district office and the LHO that we talk to tenants about the arrears, especially in the HELP program and especially with housing looking to potentially ease out of the program, that we counsel clients to pay down their arrears so they're eligible to take on the house full-time as owners. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. So we just spoke about this earlier, but it was incremental initiatives funding for emergency shelter programs. We talked about the increase in emergency shelter programs, the forced growth initiative, the funding for the two shelters in Inuvik, the funding for Fort Simpson shelter, Hay River shelter, and also the transfer of the day shelter and the sobering centre here in Yellowknife to Housing NWT. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Madam Chair, President Kelly will talk about the 50 unit and the builder. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. In terms of the HELP program -- and, again, this program was initiated probably 25 years ago, and it was working with the clients, working with potential housing tenants to take on a HELP unit. With that criteria, what we're hoping at the time with HELP was that they would pay the utilities and the overall cost for the unit and pay a minimum amount of rent to manage the unit itself. So housing would speak to the tenants themselves. If they had a steady income, they were employed, they were probably either a public housing tenant or a market housing tenant at the time...