It has significant impacts for Nunavummiut, in particular with respect to the intersections between housing costs and food costs.
Of course, food insecurity is a lived reality for so many Nunavummiut families. I've heard countless examples of families that are faced with very tough decisions over paying their rent, paying to put food on the table and paying for other household supplies—diapers, cleaning supplies, etc. Those are the kinds of very real challenges that families are facing month to month.
The way that rent is established doesn't leave much wiggle room at all to be able to also provide for culturally expected sharing practices with respect to money and with respect to food, etc. It really impacts the ability to take care of those living within the house and then extended family as well.
We know that overcrowding has very significant health impacts in terms of public health as well as mental health. The health costs are also intersecting with housing costs in Nunavut in particular, and across Inuit Nunangat.