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By Claire McFarlane, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Cabin Radio New housing data proves what most people in the Northwest Territories already know \u2013 the territory’s housing crisis persists. The data may also offer a slight glimmer of hope. Every five years, the N.W.T. Bureau of Statistics evaluates the territory’s homes based in part on three criteria: adequacy \u2013 does it need major repairs or not; affordability \u2013 do the home and associated bills like water, heat, electricity and insurance cost less than 30 per cent of household income; and suitability \u2013 does it have enough rooms for all the people trying to live in it? The last survey, in 2019, reported that 43 per cent of N.W.T. homes had at least one of those problems. The 2024 survey employed the… <\/p>\n

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By Claire McFarlane, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Cabin Radio New housing data proves what most people in the Northwest Territories already know \u2013 the territory’s housing crisis persists. The data may also offer a slight glimmer of hope. Every five years, the N.W.T. Bureau of Statistics evaluates the territory’s homes based in part on three criteria: adequacy \u2013 does it need major repairs or not; affordability \u2013 do the home and associated bills like water, heat, electricity and insurance cost less than 30 per cent of household income; and suitability \u2013 does it have enough rooms for all the people trying to live in it? The last survey, in 2019, reported that 43 per cent of N.W.T. homes had at least one of those problems. The 2024 survey employed the... <\/p>\n

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