Paulatuk family displaced to make way for government housing staff, says MLA
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Nunakput MLA Jackie Jacobson says a Paulatuk family with a young baby is at risk of being displaced from a housing unit that Housing Minister Paulie Chinna promised to secure for them during her tour of the community last year.
Jacobson said the family has fundraised to purchase a stove — in case they are removed from their unit — which they've been living in on an emergency basis since last November.
"They have nowhere to go," Jacobson said. "They're going to go to a tent frame with a fuel stove in it and they have a young baby. It's really disheartening."
Jacobson believes the new occupant is a staff person with the housing corporation. He said that a staff person could be put up in a hotel instead of displacing a local family.
"These are local people that have been born and raised in that community. [They're] being evicted because there's an outsider coming into the unit," said Jacobson.
The family in question declined to comment on their situation.
Jacobson said that Chinna promised the housing corporation would work to keep the family in the unit during a tour of the community last year.
Through a spokesperson Chinna declined multiple requests for an interview or comment on the situation saying "it would not be appropriate … to talk about individual client files."
But Jacobson said the minister is going back on her word.
"I have all the respect for my minister, but when you say something, you've got to follow through," he said.
Lorna Neal, manager of the Paulatuk Housing Association, declined to comment on the family's situation, but said that there were no active evictions in the community.
The CBC also reached out to Housing NWT, which did not deliver a response to CBC's questions.
Neal said that out of Paulatuk's 66 units, 53 are in active use as public housing or with rent geared to income.
The authority places people in houses according to a point-based waiting list. It weighs factors such as severe disability and how long a person has been on the waiting list.
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