‘Like everyone else:’ Nunavut 3000 gives Kinngait family hope for better home – Nunatsiaq News

Jul 30, 2024

Hamlet to get 70 new public housing units by 2030

Sarah Samayualie and Qiatsuq Ragee have lived in their three-bedroom burgundy house for the past 20 years.

It was built in the 1960s just across from Kinngait’s local Northern store and “sometimes smells like rot,” Ragee said.

Nunatsiaq News met up with the couple in their house on a summer day in July to see what their living situation is like and what they hope the territorial government’s housing plans can offer for them.

Officials from Nunavut Housing Corp. and other government organizations toured the hamlet the following day, looking at potential lots for housing for Nunavut 3000, a $2.6-billion project to build 3,000 new units across the territory by 2030.

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