‘Modernized’ Nunavut Homeownership Assistance Program began here – Nunatsiaq News

A year ago, no one was talking about the Homeownership Assistance Program until a Nunatsiaq News reporter pulled it from the dustbin of history, brushed off the cobwebs and gave everyone a fresh look at it.

Now, the Nunavut Homeownership Assistance Program is going to give Nunavummiut the chance to own their own house with $250,000 in government funding along with some do-it-yourself labour.

The Government of Nunavut calls it a “modernized” version of the HAP program that existed from 1983 to 1992.

That program gave people a shipment of free building materials from the Northwest Territories government and blueprints plucked from a catalogue. Using their own “sweat equity,” people would build the homes themselves.

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