QIA, Ottawa announce nearly $30M for High Arctic housing project
Project will supply 21 rental units across 5 Qikiqtani communities
Grise Fiord, seen here, is one of the five High Arctic communities in the Qikiqtani region that will receive housing units as a result of the joint funding announcement between the federal government and Qikiqtani Inuit Association. The other communities are Resolute Bay, Clyde River, Arctic Bay and Pond Inlet. (Photo courtesy of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada)
The federal government and Qikiqtani Inuit Association have come together to pump nearly $30 million into housing in five communities in the High Arctic of the Qikiqtani region.
“Everyone deserves an affordable and safe place to call home,” federal Northern Affairs Minister Daniel Vandal said in a media release about the funding.
The federal government will provide $17.9 million through its rapid housing initiative, while the Qikiqtani Inuit Association will contribute $11.9 million.
There will be 10 housing projects across five communities in the High Arctic portion of the Qikiqtani region — Grise Fiord, Resolute Bay, Clyde River, Arctic Bay and Pond Inlet.
There will be 21 rental units built overall. They will be a mix of four-bedroom detached units and three-bedroom semi-detached units.
QIA announced its plan to apply for $18 million in federal funding for High Arctic housing in the spring at the same time it committed its portion of the project funding.
At the time, QIA’s executive director of infrastructure and development Matthew Hamp said it would be “super-challenging” for the regional Inuit association to get that federal funding. He had also added QIA was optimistic about getting it.
Nunavut MP Lori Idlout said today’s housing announcement “is a welcome one but is long overdue.”
She thanked QIA for its efforts in securing the funding and added that too many Nunavummiut live in crowded or substandard living conditions.
“While this announcement is appreciated, it is a stark reminder that the federal government must urgently scale up its efforts to quickly meet the housing needs of people in Nunavut,” Idlout said in a statement to Nunatsiaq News.
Nearly $30 million to build 21 houses.
Some people will get very rich.
Who will be the lucky few who will get to live in those houses?
Who will choose them, and how?
I want in 😂 $$$$$
Always critical, and you ain’t getting a unit. a house is a house and that’s about it in housing starved Nunavut. at least some ppl will for once wake up in a new unit…if GN employees were to stop pay raises for 10 yrs, problem 70% solved. but who’s that kind at public service?
🤣 who’s getting rich of this I wanna work for em 😂
I’ll be the lucky one till people I’m living in a $30M unit and my rent is $60 a month
1.4 MIllion per unit
Someone is getting rich
Get a trade invest a couple of hundred thousand for tools and equipment, pay another 10 or 20 thousand for insurance, hire a crew for another couple hundred thousand house that crew for some more hundreds of thousand, buy and ship material hire subtrades. It appears anyone can do it. So why don’t you commentary with apparent superior intellect , skills and investment dollars get a part of that easy earned wealth. Think a bit.
How many homes are actually in progress right now as part of the highly touted 3000 units. Please someone find that facts on that
so if my math is correct nunavut 300 will cost 4.2 billion dollars
3000* forgot the extra 0
Your typo may be profetic. I fear that Nunavut 3000 will produce closer to 300 houses than to 3000 houses by 2030.
If teens stopped making babies while living with parents, this wouldn’t be a freaking problem. Teens In Nunavut need to get their priorities straight. Get education. Get a good job and stick with it. Not be young and he kids while still living with mom or dad.
More babies means more money and higher priority on the housing waitlist. Whoever is at the top making these rules has zéro grasp on reality.
Ain’t local for sure; Northerner…must be from crime ridden city with overdoses left right and center. stop your pointing…..I rather face this problem rather than biggest city in Canada’s problem, shootings on nightly basis, ramming ppl with vehicles. And so on blah blah blah.