{"id":121983,"date":"2025-09-05T14:28:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/121983\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T14:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:28:17","slug":"ceo-says-nunavut-housing-corp-committed-to-transparency-improvements-after-auditor-general-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/121983\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO says Nunavut Housing Corp. committed to transparency, improvements after auditor general report"},"content":{"rendered":"

MLAs review findings of report outlining shortfalls in public housing, Nunavut 3000 <\/p>\n

Nunavut Housing Corp. president and CEO Eiryn Devereaux says he\u2019s committed to better transparency and implementing improvements, following a report from Canada\u2019s auditor general on shortcomings in public housing in the territory.<\/p>\n

Devereaux, deputy auditor general Andrew Hayes and executives from the Nunavut Housing Corp. and NCC Investment Group Inc. appeared Thursday before the Nunavut legislature\u2019s government oversight committee.<\/p>\n

The committee is examining the findings of the auditor general\u2019s report<\/a>, tabled in the legislature in May.<\/p>\n

It outlined problems with public housing in Nunavut, including poor maintenance, challenges the government faces in meeting its goal to build 3,000 new housing units<\/a> by 2030, and a failure to provide \u201cequitable\u201d housing for Nunavummiut.<\/p>\n

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Deputy auditor general Andrew Hayes speaks to MLAs Thursday afternoon. (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is critical for the government to take action and ensure Nunavummiut have access to suitable and adequate public housing, giving priority to those with the greatest need,\u201d Hayes said in his opening remarks.<\/p>\n

Devereaux, in his opening remarks, said the housing corporation welcomes the report and accepts its 10 recommendations, which include improving collaboration and communication with local housing authorities and more transparency on progress being made in construction.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI want to begin by reaffirming [the Nunavut Housing Corp.\u2019s] strong commitment to transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The logistical challenges of providing public housing in the territory, progress the corporation has made in resolving \u201csystemic\u201d administrative and management issues, and some of the corporation\u2019s Nunavut 3000 builds so far, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile we respect the work of the auditor general, we believe the audit captures only part of this story,\u201d Devereaux said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe transformation of Nunavut\u2019s housing system is underway and future audits will better reflect the depth of this change.\u201d<\/p>\n

A recurring topic was that some issues with public housing identified in a 2008 auditor general\u2019s report<\/a> were similar to ones cited in this year\u2019s report.<\/p>\n

That report by then-auditor general Sheila Fraser similarly cited problems with Nunavut Housing Corp.\u2019s management, preventive maintenance programs, housing allocation and construction.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think the delivery of the public housing program will always be dififcult and challenging,\u201d Devereaux said, stating he wasn\u2019t with the housing corporation in 2008.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully, through [an audit report], both Nunavut Housing Corporation and [local housing organizations] are moving in a favourable direction to try to improve upon that, to try to achieve that sort of perfect scenario.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hayes said at some point there will likely be a followup to this year\u2019s report. Devereaux said he hopes it will show the progress being made.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think coming out of this audit report, we\u2019ve reviewed the findings, worked to develop an action plan that was time-bound and specific that hopefully addresses a lot of the key observations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sure the office of the auditor general will do a followup in the coming year or two to help measure progress toward some of the recommendations.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Questions continued late into Thursday afternoon and are expected to continue Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MLAs review findings of report outlining shortfalls in public housing, Nunavut 3000 Nunavut Housing Corp. president and CEO…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-121983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}