Nunavik currently needs approximately 800 additional social housing units, which means many people in the region live in overcrowded conditions. “I know some families living three to four people in one bedroom,” Jeannie Dupuis, the assistant director general at Kativik Ilisarniliriniq, the Nunavik regional school board, said. As of September 2022, the latest available figures, the school board was still short some 160 units for its staff. Each year the school board presents its housing needs to the Quebec provincial government, which then approves funding for the projects. “Sometimes the price is double or triple once they’re completed,” Sarah Aloupa, president of the Kativik school board said.
