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Change is in store for public housing tenants in Nunavut.

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(PHOTO MIRIAM HILL)

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Public housing in Nunavut: What’s changing?

Nunatsiaq News

Between now and the end of the year, the Nunavut Housing Corporation will create new ways of charging rent, and new ways of helping public housing tenants become homeowners.

Here’s a list of what may change:

• If you’re on income support, your rent will probably double, from $32 to $64 a month.

• If you earn money by working for wages, your rent will be calculated in a new way as of Jan. 1, 2003, so that you’re not penalized so much for getting a job.

• Students, youth and elders may get special exemptions.

• People living in overcrowded units or units that are in poor condition may be charged reduced rents.

• Until the new public housing rent scale is announced, your rent will be frozen, as of July 1.

• Starting in September, the housing corporation will encourage you — if you’re eligible — to buy your unit through a new program called "TOP," the "Tenant-to-Owner" program. Mortgage payments would be based on 20 per cent of your gross monthly income, minus costs such as utilities, insurance, taxes, and monthly land lease payments.

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