Inuit regions contain the worst, most overcrowded housing, Senator says – NunatsiaqOnline
April 20, 2016
Senate committee surveying housing in Nunavut, Nunavik and Labrador
Limited housing, overcrowding, and the poor quality of life experienced by many northerners makes the need for adequate places to live greater than in the rest of the country, says Saskatchewan Senator Lillian Eva Dyck, chair of the Senate Committee on Aboriginal People.
That committee is now working on a report on the North’s housing crisis.
“I think the degree of overcrowding here is worse than it is, from what I understand, in the rest of the country. Its nothing like we’re hearing about it,” Dyck told Nunatsiaq News during a tour of an Iqaluit housing complex April 18.
