Work to start this fall on 166 new housing units in 17 Nunavut communities
Nunavut Housing Corp., NCC Development Ltd. say plan aligns with Nunavut 3000 strategy
Seventeen Nunavut communities will see construction start this fall on 166 new housing units as part of the Nunavut 3000 strategy. (File photo)
Construction on 166 new housing units across 17 Nunavut communities is expected to begin later this year.
Nunavut Housing Corp. and NCC Development Ltd. have signed design-build contracts for the work as part of the Igluliuqatigiingniq Nunavut 3000 Strategy, the two agencies announced in a news release Wednesday.
The strategy, announced by the Government of Nunavut and Nunavut Housing Corp. in 2022, aims to build 3,000 new housing units in the territory by 2030.
The plan announced Wednesday will see 146 public housing units and 20 staff housing units built. It includes 16 units approved in Pangnirtung, 20 each in Igloolik and Kinngait, and 12 in Coral Harbour and Kugluktuk.
The communities of Grise Fiord, Kimmirut, Resolute Bay, Qikiqtarjuaq, and Whale Cove are each approved for six units while Chesterfield Inlet, Clyde River, Kugaaruk, Naujaat, Pond Inlet, Sanirajak and Sanikiluaq will each get eight units.
The total contract value for the 166 units is approximately $134.7 million, according to the announcement.
“The execution of these contracts aligns with the vision of Igluliuqatigiingniq Nunavut 3000 and reflects a significant increase in the annual supply of new public housing units desperately needed across the territory,” Nunavut Housing Corp. CEO and president Eiryn Devereaux said in the statement.
“One of the guiding principles of the partnership agreement with [NCC Development Ltd.] was to demonstrate value for money and realize significant increases to supply of new units.”
The contracts include an Inuit labour target of 30 per cent for construction of the new units.
“Our organization is committed to mobilizing Inuit-owned and Northern resources to build homes by and for Nunavummiut,” said NCC Development CEO and president Clarence Synard in the release.
“The Nunavut 3000 Strategy includes meaningful and effective training programs that will ensure we lead in the development of skills for Inuit who are interested in a career in trades.”
Let the mayhem and scandals begin …
Rent collection should be fun.😂
Nothing for Arctic Bay
Pay for your own housing. Tax payers shouldn’t have to pay
EXACTLY!!!
AMEN!!!!
Society owes you nothing.
Want it? WORK (OMG!! That bad word again!!!! Abuse!!! Abuse!! Abuse!!
Society owes me.”
hi,
resident of Rankin Inlet here. who is saying we dont pay for our taxes? we are.
and arent you in Rankin Inlet as well? working for the Northern? so would that mean you are living in a Northern unit for free? do you also pay for gas to use the company truck? if you are having issues with your pay, then maybe you should look for a job in the south unless you are getting good benefits that you are trying to stay in the north for work.
Each unit add to the nhc inventory costs 25000.00 annually . So add to budget next year about 4 million. If the 3000 are built add 75 million annually. And when 2030 arrives there will still be a housing shortage because of population growth. Really, is this sustainable.
Taloyoak had builds cancelled in 2021 and again in 2022. They have the longest housing wait list in the Kitikmeot despite being the smallest community. How do Kugluktuk and Kugaaruk, both of which have had recent housing builds (Kugluktuk in 2021, and Kugaaruk in both 2020 and 2021), get more housing before Taloyoak gets anything?
I’m not sure why, but it definitely sounds like you have an ineffective MLA.
The announcement also indicated that this contract is approximately $670 per square foot for building these units. This is concerning for the already astronomical prices in the housing market these days.
For a typical home in Nunavut that is roughly 1400 square feet – 1800 square feet, the cost of that home should range $938,000 – $1,206,000 (according to the $670 per square foot). The prices are already on the upward trend as we’ve seen in Iqaluit, but with this contract awarded at the $670 per square foot costs, doesn’t help future home buyers put their minds at ease about ever being able to afford to purchase a home without having to ask so many people to co-sign or save $300,000 for a downpayment.
This is great for those who already own their own homes, but think about those who don’t or are trying to buy their own homes and can’t keep up with the inflation of the housing prices and have to keep increasing their saving goals for a downpayment.
Did anyone at Nunatsiaq ask how they actually intend to hit their target at the rate they have been putting up homes? NCC has been falling well short of its initial goals per year and at this rate they wont even be close.
Id wager by the time they finish Nunavut 3,000 the first round of social housing units built will pretty much be destroyed / in deplorable conditions because I don’t see any programs happening at the same time that would change how units are being treated. Toss another house into the fire.
The initiative is reckless because it has no policy basis. Will anything be changing to get 85% of the housing in Nunavut out of being for welfare recipients? By 2030 they will need 7000 more units to prop up another generation of welfare recipients.
Anytime the GN/NHC completes a new build, they should auction it off to the highest bidder, no restrictions. Create a market, create some individual wealth. Doesn’t matter if they should an entire house for $500, NHC would be financially better off to get it off their hands. Sell the current stock, too. $1 each, I don’t care. They can’t manage what they have anyway.
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in 2021-22 they spent $224.5 million on administering Public Housing (not building), while collecting $17.5 million in rent, so that’s $207 million down the drain.
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Build. Sell. Repeat.