Housing NWT says it has finished building a three-bedroom modular duplex that will offer two new social housing units in Paulatuk.
The duplex “will replace homes operating beyond their service life,” the territory’s housing agency said in a Tuesday news release.
“In a small, remote community on the Arctic coast like Paulatuk, even one new housing project can make a difference,” housing minister and Nunakput MLA Lucy Kuptana was quoted as saying.
Housing NWT said the time needed to open the new units was shorted by prefabricating the modular home elsewhere then shipping it into Paulatuk for assembly.
“This construction approach helps shorten build timelines, manage costs and reduce risks associated with remote construction, while ensuring the homes are designed for long-term durability in northern conditions,” the agency stated.
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In the NWT’s 2024 survey of housing by community, Paulatuk and Wrigley had the joint-highest proportion of “dwellings in core need” at just under 50 percent.
That means around half of Paulatuk’s homes had problems and their occupants didn’t earn enough to meet the costs without support.
Paulatuk’s level of core need was more than double the territorial average. Almost two out of every three Paulatuk housing units was described as “needing major repair.”
