By Tom Taylor, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, NWT News/North In January of 2024, the federal government announced plans to invest nearly $19 million for new homes in Indigenous communities around the NWT. A little over a year later, many of those sorely-needed homes have been installed and occupied. Nahanni Butte, a community of less than 100 people, was promised seven houses through the federal investment, which was part of the third phase of the Rapid Housing Initiative (RHI). Six of those homes are already occupied, and the last, which was damaged during installation, should be be complete soon. “Out of the seven approved, all seven units were brought in community around February [of 2024],” said Nahanni Butte Dene Band manager Soham Srimani. “During installation, one of the units got damaged,…
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