QIA announces $152M for affordable housing projects
Detached, semi-detached family homes to be built across Qikiqtani region
The Qikiqtani Inuit Association is allocating $152 million for new single-family detached, four-bedroom homes and semi-detached, three-bedroom homes in each Qikiqtani community. (Photo by Madalyn Howitt)
Qikiqtani Inuit Association will put $152 million toward new housing across the Qikiqtani region, the organization announced Tuesday at the start of its four-day membership meeting in Iqaluit.
The money will specifically be used to build single-family detached, four-bedroom homes and semi-detached, three-bedroom homes, in Qikiqtani communities, spokesperson Karen Flaherty said a statement posted on the regional Inuit association’s website.
“The two styles of housing satisfied the guiding principle of Inuit-specific housing as distinct from social housing, meaning there would be more usable land between home and family-centered spaces,” Flaherty said.
The amount allocated to each community will range from $4.45 million for smaller communities like Grise Fiord or Kimmirut to $17 million to larger communities like Igloolik and Pond Inlet.
Iqaluit will receive the largest allocation based on the population of the whole Qikiqtani region with about $41 million.
The federal government granted the money through its 2022 budget to Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., where it was distributed to the regional Inuit associations through NTI’s infrastructure and housing advisory committee.
“This funding is intended to fill gaps between social housing, under the Nunavut Housing Corporation, and market-rate housing that tends to be out of reach for most working families,” Flaherty said.
What does “The two styles of housing satisfied the guiding principle of Inuit-specific housing as distinct from social housing, meaning there would be more usable land between home and family-centered spaces,” mean?
They’ll have bigger yards.
My guess, whomever wrote this communications piece is exquisitely attuned to the appropriate ‘signals’ demanded inside the Nuna-verse.
Wonder who is gonna maintain these units? Are they gonna do a sole source contract for NHC & QC to build these units? When will these communities be shovel ready? Thought there was no land in Iqaluit?? More of a whole lot of nothing if u ask me!
Jeez yeah you’re right. Guess they shouldn’t even bother building houses and trying to take positive steps toward solving a crisis. Cancel it all and let it just fix itself. ’Cause that works.
To whom (specifically) will the 6 units be allocated, in smaller communities; 20 units in larger hamlets? Who will maintain the houses and manage the tenants? Who will fund the maintenance and management?
Will the houses have tenants or will the units be gifted to grantees?
Will these be built at $1,400,000 each, like those announced earlier this week?
Let’s hope the units don’t end up like NHC punching bag units. Hopefully the tenants can respect then. They should have rules like no drinking in units.
Thank you, QIA! I’m glad houses are now being belt for the beneficiaries! It will be a joyous time for those who’ve been on the waiting list for a long time to move into a house of their own!
Probably 10 plexes apartments 🙁
Who is going to build them. You don’t want “Southern” trades. I should mention they are Canadian and this is Canada. However “Who”. Better get going on education, training, and motivation. Throwing money isn’t the full answer.
People cry because of lack of housing, people cry when there’s an announcement for new houses in Nunavut, cry, cry, cry!!!!
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Let’s be happy for those who’ve been on the waiting list for a long time! Life is so much better when you have your own space, even if you don’t have much!
the root cause of the problem is high labor cost, the contractors have dictation of how much they will charge you, some are becoming very rich at the misery of Nunavummiut, the housing shortage. QIA, at least 60% of that is going to the builders so there isn’t much $$ to build with. so that millions, about twenty, maybe little more homes will be build; travel, accommodation, food for the builders will be inflated figures for more profit. Yes, we are at the mercy of southern contractors…
Thank you QIA for working on this, NTI have been sitting on hundreds of millions for housing they received from the feds for a few years now and have no plans of doing anything with it, if QIA did not push for this no housing would be build next year.
Should just give all fed funding for housing to RIAs instead of NTI.
What will the rest of the funding that NTI has be used for and when? We have a housing crisis, we need housing yesterday!