Housing

Featured, Health, Housing, News, Reconciliation November 18, 2024

Ten-week camp for up to 30 Yellowknife homeless opens outside city

On-the-Land program will provide dorm-style cabins, heated outhouses and showers costing taxpayers $9.2K a day

The GNWT is setting up a temporary campsite on the Ingraham Trail that will accommodate 20 to 30 homeless people this winter. “The On-the-Land Camp…

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Police now work with housing officials to oust traffickers, rowdy tenants from public housing units

After years of complaints and pleas for help from MLAs and tenants, the RCMP now helps local officials build their case for evictions

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Youth sobering centre and street outreach program needed in Yellowknife, says group

HomeBase YK says there is a gap for the 'crisis our youth are facing' when experiencing homelessness, addiction or both

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Fewer residents, more garbage at 51st Street homeless encampment

GNWT hopes for 'cooperative resolution,' but explores legal options as deadlines to vacate ignored

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Nine who remain at 51st Street homeless encampment fear RCMP arrival at any time

Territorial government’s deadline to vacate the Aspen Apartments parking lot this week pushed back to Friday

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Homeless encampment in Yellowknife to come down starting today

Authorities will work with residents there to secure housing options; area residents complained of filth and crime

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City open to ‘homeless encampments’ on public land, says Mayor Rebecca Alty

Social advocate Georgina Franki says new tent platform on Commissioner’s land at Niven Lake a good place to start

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Woman kidnapped and sexually assaulted for one week in a tent, say Yellowknife RCMP

The ordeal took place on public land, but little is known about the 47-year-old suspect who is now in custody

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Fort Good Hope Construction Centre wins ‘millions of dollars’ from Canada Mortgage and Housing

Training and housing go hand in hand in Rádeyı̨lı̨ Kǫ́ (Fort Good Hope), says MLA Shauna Morgan

Featured, Health, Housing, News, Police, Politics June 11, 2024

Shelters are full in Yellowknife, MLA seeks solutions from GNWT

Number of bed seekers has increased and 'capacity is being completely overwhelmed,' says Shauna Morgan

Emergency shelters in Yellowknife are “completely overwhelmed,” with MLA Shauna Morgan saying she’s afraid the system will collapse without solutions being found soon. Morgan is…

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