Two national housing groups are calling on the Northwest Territories to declare a state of emergency for housing Indigenous people, particularly women and girls.
The National Indigenous Housing Network and Women's National Housing and Homeless Network say Housing N.W.T., the territory's housing agency, is failing northern Indigenous people.
Richard Edjericon, a member of the territory's legislative assembly, tabled photos in October depicting an insect infestation in a public housing unit in the Lanky Court apartment building in Yellowknife. Legislature member Caitlin Cleveland subsequently raised concerns that Housing N.W.T. doesn't collect data on the gender or ethnicity of people living in public housing or on people experiencing homelessness across the territory.
The two housing networks are demanding Housing N.W.T. release control over housing units and that a group of Indigenous advisers from across the territory oversee its decisions. “We're hoping to see more housing,” she said. “I want to see a convoy of trucks bringing in this housing.”The Dene Nation passed a resolution to do so in 2019, saying the Crown had not met its obligations to provide quality housing for its citizens. In May 2022, the federal government said it would provide $600,000 over three years to the Dene Nation to create a housing and infrastructure secretariat and $135,000 to purchase a modular unit in K'aÌtl'odeeche First Nation.
Paulie Chinna, the minister responsible for the territory's housing corporation, said in a statement that a state of emergency is usually declared during a natural disaster, civil unrest, armed conflict or medical pandemic so the government can put through policies it normally would not be permitted to do.
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