Don’t wait for applications to give out housing cash, MPs say
Housing funds should go straight to Indigenous governments instead of requiring a system of applications and grants, a parliamentary committee concluded.
Housing funds should go straight to Indigenous governments instead of requiring a system of applications and grants, a parliamentary committee concluded.
Inuvik residents at a meeting about homelessness had one word they uttered with unique distaste. Policy, they say, is behind much of the NWT's housing crisis.
"We try to leave no youth out." Yellowknife's Home Base YK hosted an open house on Thursday to show off its newly renovated youth housing.
The NWT should set a target of 57,000 residents by 2043 and build thousands of new homes to match, MLAs told cabinet members.
A groundbreaking ceremony was held for Avens Pavilion, one of Yellowknife's biggest housing projects in decades. The 102-unit facility is due to open next year.
The federal government pledged $2.6 million to support a project that will create 10 new affordable housing units in Délı̨nę.
"When something breaks, it's complicated." Sambaa K'e, in the NWT's Dehcho, is designing a housing action plan. Already, some issues are bigger than expected.
Hundreds of evacuees from a flood zone have arrived in Yellowknife, a city with "zero vacancy." The city manager is figuring out how to make that work.
The new owners of Hay River's vacant Mackenzie Place apartment building say they want to address the town's housing shortage and help the community grow.
The federal government is providing $600,000 over three years to help the Dene Nation create its own housing and infrastructure team.
Following months of concern about how Spruce Bough would keep running without long-term funding, the NWT government agreed to provide money for the project.
Internal documents suggest the operator of Yellowknife's day and sobering centre “obstructed” GNWT efforts to investigate allegations of management failings.