{"id":457808,"date":"2026-02-06T15:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/457808\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T15:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:19:10","slug":"nunavut-faces-worst-housing-crisis-in-canada-mp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/457808\/","title":{"rendered":"Nunavut faces \u2018worst housing crisis in Canada,\u2019 MP says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nunavut MP Lori Idlout is a calling on the federal government to make a firm commitment to address the housing shortage in Nunavut.<\/p>\n

\u201cWill the minister keep working with Nunavut to address the worst housing crisis in Canada?\u201d the NDP politician asked Liberal Housing and Infrastructure Minister Gregor Robertson in the House of Commons on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Idlout pressed the government on the issue two days after posting a message on Facebook asking Nunavummiut whether they had ever been on a housing waiting list.<\/p>\n

Robertson did not answer the question directly, instead reiterating the government\u2019s plan announced last week<\/a> to build 750 homes in Nunavut. Those 750 homes will be part of the Government of Nunavut\u2019s plan to build 3,000 new units between 2022 and 2030.<\/p>\n

Idlout\u2019s question came on the heels of the federal NDP caucus\u2019s visit to Rankin Inlet last month<\/a> for their winter retreat. Along with talking strategy, NDP members met with Nunavummiut to hear their concerns on a variety of topics.<\/p>\n

One Inuk man from Rankin Inlet told them he had been on the housing wait-list for 11 years, Idlout said in the House of Commons on Thursday. The man lives in a two-bedroom unit he shares with 16 other people.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis story is all too common in Nunavut,\u201d Idlout said.<\/p>\n

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In Ottawa last Friday, the federal government announced a partnership with Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. and the Government of Nunavut to build 750 homes in Nunavut as part of the federal government\u2019s $13-billion Build Canada Homes project.<\/p>\n

When Prime Minister Mark Carney announced<\/a> the plan in September, it included funding for 700 Nunavut homes. Idlout said the federal government\u2019s addition of 50 more homes last week \u201cis a good start\u201d to solving the housing crisis.<\/p>\n

More than 60 per cent of Nunavummiut rely on public housing \u2014 45 per cent of which is considered overcrowded \u2014 and the public housing wait-list sat at 3,348 as of March 2025, according to the auditor general\u2019s report<\/a>\u00a0published in May 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nunavut MP Lori Idlout is a calling on the federal government to make a firm commitment to address…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-457808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457808","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=457808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}