Prime Minister announces $20.8M for 50-unit housing complex in Yellowknife
‘It’s so needed in our city and in our territory,’ said Yellowknife Mayor Rebecca Alty Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was
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Québec funds research to adapt Nunavik public housing to thawing permafrost
The vast majority of public housing in the region is built on jacks The Société d’habitation du Québec is looking
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$20 million in debt forgiven by Housing NWT in last 3 years
By Jenna Dulewich Housing NWT going through old mortgage files to ‘clean them up’ Housing NWT has forgiven more than
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Housing a key priority for Nunavut politicians ahead of federal budget
Nunavut’s premier, member of Parliament and senator are all hoping that the upcoming federal budget will include money to address
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Population growth in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, prompts call for homeless shelter
Denise Ford left Rankin Inlet because she didn’t have housing A woman who had to move away from Rankin Inlet,
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Affordability one major theme of Yukon’s latest housing report
45 per cent of all units in Carcross are unaffordable, inadequate or overcrowded, report says Affordability is one of the
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Abbott pledges support for Nunatsiavut housing after advocate calls it ‘abominable’
Housing minister says a co-ordinated approach with local government is best Newfoundland and Labrador’s housing minister toured Nunatsiavut this week, getting
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‘Beside myself’: Renters struggle to find affordable housing in the North
By Emily Blake · The Canadian Press Aurora Rose Gellenbeck has been living out of a hotel in Yellowknife for the past
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Housing demand, costs rose across northern Canada in 2022: CMHC report
Rates of ‘core housing need’ higher in the North than elsewhere in Canada, especially in Nunavut The Northern economy grew
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Investments in Inuit housing not enough to address human rights violations: watchdog
By Emily Blake · The Canadian Press Underfunding for Inuit housing has ‘taken its toll,’ says Marie-Josée Houle From a family living
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Quebec coroner links infant deaths in Nunavik to overcrowded housing
A coroner’s report looking into the death of a three-month-old infant in Quebec’s northern Nunavik region in 2021 says overcrowding
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Nunavut Legislative Assembly’s fall sitting kicks off this week
There are seven bills to be introduced. Among them is the capital budget he Nunavut Legislative Assembly will be back
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Ambitious plan to create 3,000 homes announced in Nunavut
News release does not say how housing project will be funded An ambitious housing plan for Nunavut was laid out on
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‘No one is really taking care of us’: Little progress made on improving Inuit housing
By Emily Blake · The Canadian Press Meeka Atagootak says the house in Pond Inlet on Nunavut’s Baffin Island that she shares
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Nunavut MP presses minister on ‘desperately needed’ housing in the North
Nunavut’s housing crisis reached Ottawa for the second time this week as NDP MP Lori Idlout pressed Housing Minister Ahmed Hussen
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