Some MLAs are calling for more resources to help enforce evictions in the NWT. Others question if we have enough evictions data to properly inform new laws.
Housing
The NWT’s housing is in crisis. Continuing coverage of the issues affecting the territory’s homes, the problems, and the solutions.
School boards, the GNWT and the Home Base Yellowknife charity are rolling out a new program that offers housing, help and education to youth in crisis.
Sixty-four new homes, including 30 units of transitional housing, will be built on vacant Yellowknife land that once housed apartments destroyed in a 2018 fire.
"Let's not waste any more time." A new Indigenous-led nonprofit held a gathering in downtown Yellowknife as it starts work to help people without homes.
Residents have yet to move into Yellowknife's renovated Aspen Apartments due to an electrical issue in the building, housing minister Lucy Kuptana said.
Two MLAs say the threshold to qualify for the territory's seniors' home heating subsidy is too high, despite it having been raised this winter.
