Housing emerged as a dominant issue this week at the first Baffin Mayors’ Forum in 14 years.
“There are more and more homeless,” Sanirajak’s Deputy Mayor Manasee Ulayak said Tuesday during one of several roundtable discussions held at Iqaluit’s Aqsarniit hotel during the three-day from that ended Thursday.
Although the leaders have not finalized the six resolutions they plan to present to the territorial government in coming months, several housing-related themes emerged during the meetings.
“We need to construct more houses,” Pond Inlet Mayor Joshua Arreak said in Inuktitut through a translator.