Infrastructure

With regard to the so-called “housing waiting list”:

1. (a) How many different housing waiting lists are currently active in the province, (b) how many people are on each list and (c) can any one person be on more than one housing waiting list;
2. whether some lists are given priority over others; if so, (a) how is this priority deter-mined and (b) what is the total demand for housing in the province according to the waiting lists;
3. (a) how long have the first ten people on each list been waiting for housing, (b) why has a housing opportunity not been allocated to them yet and (c) on average, how long is the wait time for a house;
4. given the income eligibility criteria for housing over the years, how many individuals who previously qualified and were placed on the waiting list no longer qualify and have since been removed.
5. whether the housing waiting lists inform the decision-making process in terms of where housing will be built; if no, why not; if so, how has the housing waiting list informed the location of any housing project?