Housing NWT

Northwest Territories Housing Corporation Announces Engagement Survey

YELLOWKNIFE (December 1, 2016) – The Northwest Territories Housing Corporation (NWTHC) will be conducting a comprehensive survey that will help renew its strategic actions.

Entitled Engagement on Strategic Action Renewal, the survey will collect broad, wide-ranging input from residents and stakeholders to help the NWTHC focus housing programs and services in the short-term, and assist with long-term planning activities as it strives toward the vision of affordable, adequate and suitable housing for all Northwest Territories (NWT) residents. 

Caroline Cochrane: Homelessness Initiatives

Mr. Speaker, homelessness in our communities is a critical issue that we need to address together.    Homelessness is complex and affected by many factors.  People who are homeless often have traumatic past and current lives, most struggle with mental health issues, behavioural concerns, and/or addictions that need to be addressed.  Because homelessness is complex, approaches that don’t include collaboration, or that are not sustainable don’t work.

Collaboration begins with those with lived experience, it extends to all sectors of government, and to each of us as individuals. 

Caroline Cochrane: K’atlodeeche First Nation – Implementation of Public Housing

Mr. Speaker, the Government of the Northwest Territories has made a commitment in its Mandate to work in partnership with other orders of government to address affordable housing requirements and to support Aboriginal and local governments in their housing aspirations and initiatives to address homelessness.

We are delivering on that commitment and I am pleased to tell you today about a new partnership initiative between the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation and K’atlodeeche First Nation that will let us deliver housing services and programs on reserve land.

Caroline Cochrane: Federal investment in northern housing

Mr. Speaker, the Government of the Northwest Territories has made a commitment in its mandate to work in partnership with other orders of government to address affordable housing requirements. As Members already know, our territory has housing needs well beyond those of the rest of Canada, especially in our rural and remote communities.  The Northwest Territories has the second highest level of core housing need in the country at 20% while the national average sits at 12.5%. 

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