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May 7, 2004
Nunavut's housing crisis by the numbers
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
- Number of Nunavummiut on social housing waiting lists: 15 per cent of
Nunavut's population
- Number of new social housing units that Nunavut requires to catch up with
current needs: 3,000
- Number of new social housing units that Nunavut requires each year to catch
up with new needs: 250 per year
- Number of new social housing units that Nunavut will need to catch up with
current needs five years from now: 4,000
- Number of new social housing units to be built over the next two years
under last year's one-time-only grant from the federal government: 160
- Total number of dwelling units in Nunavut: 8,200
- Total number of social housing units in Nunavut: 3,900, or 45 per cent
of all dwelling units
- Total number of Nunavummiut living in social housing: 14,000, 98 per
cent of whom are Inuit
- Proportion of Inuit who live in overcrowded conditions: 54 per cent
- Proportion of urban aboriginal people in Canada who live in overcrowded
conditions: 13 per cent
- Proportion of rural aboriginal people in Canada who live in overcrowded
conditions: 19 per cent
- The rate of tuberculosis infection in Nunavut, attributed to overcrowded
conditions: 25 times the national average
- Average construction cost in Nunavut for one social housing unit: $250,000
Sources: Nunavut Tunngavik's presentation to the House of Commons standing
committee on aboriginal affairs on April 19, the Nunavut Housing Corporation,
and Statistics Canada.
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