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The accession consists of early years of Housing Corporation development in the NWT including recommendations, legislation proposals and ordinances. It contains discussions of surplus housing, drafting a local building by-law, changes made to the Rural and Native Housing program, and community planning and development including building houses for GNWT rental units. It consists of a Special Purpose Housing outline from Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation. It contains a discussion paper on ethical principles for the conduct of research in the north and notes on the impact of housing on health concerns. It also contains a Northwest Territories Housing Corporation Management & Employment Manuel for 1975, a Ministry of State for Urban Affairs Annual Report from 1976 - 1977, and a Northwest Territories Housing Corporation Management Report from 1988.

File includes correspondence, research materials, and reports, including "A Report to Determine How Responsibility for Indian Housing Was Transferred to the Government of the Northwest Territories During the 1970s".

Records date from 1969-2000 and include a report on how responsibility for Aboriginal housing was transferred to the GNWT. Records include background documents from the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. There are also reports that were completed by the NWTHC on the analysis of utility costs in public housing, a summary report and background material from NWTHC strategic planning workshop, as well as a work plan and outline of a transfer framework related to the GNWT community empowerment initiative and how it impacted the NWT Housing Corporation. The majority of the records consist of correspondence between the NWTHC and a consulting firm that was hired to complete housing needs surveys. Records include the Final Technical Project Report, as well as housing needs survey reports for the following communities: Iqaluit, Kugluktuk, Yellowknife, Bay Chimo, Pelly Bay, Pond Inlet, Norman Wells, Wha Ti, Paulatuk and Snare Lake. The remaining records include correspondence and implementation strategy regarding the transfer of the responsibility of social housing to NWTHC from the CMHC (Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation), correspondence and report between NWTHC and CMHC regarding northern Aboriginal housing and an executive summary, correspondence, reports and decision papers regarding the harmonization of social assistance programs (Education, Culture and Employment) and public housing programs.

Records date between 1970-1994 and include briefing notes about housing issues, committee files from the Planning and Monitoring Committee, Advisory Committee on Social Housing, Maintenance Management Review Committee, Standing Committee on Agencies, Board and Commissions, Staff Housing Infrastructure Review Committee, and Human Resources Planning Committee. In addition, there are manuals and planning files related to the NWTHC Maintenance Management System, the Management Information System (MIS), Building and Learning Strategy, reports and studies on housing initiatives, senior and elder housing, and files pertaining to the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) budget cuts and the relationship between the NWT Housing Corporation with the Federal Government.

Records were created by various divisions and include materials from senior management committee (SMC) meetings, reports on programming, strategic planning, organizational reviews, papers related to the Harmonization Committee with the Department of Education, Culture and Employment, housing demand studies, management agreements with community housing organization, and historical background information on the NWT Housing Corporation.

Northwest Territories Council: Task force on housing ; Preliminary report / Northwest Territories Council. - [Yellowknife] : [Northwest Territories Housing Corporation], 1972. - Published report (24p.)

The records date from 1972-1982 and consist of six reports. There are task force reports on the creation of the NWTHC, rehabilitation program reports, and one report on housing program proposals.

Report of the Northwest Territories Council task force on housing / Northwest Territories Council. - [Yellowknife] : [Northwest Territories Housing Corporation], 1972. - Published report (48p.) : maps : transparencies.

Records include minutes of Board of Directors meetings and from internal committees such as the Policy Committee and the Finance Committee. There are also community files containing correspondence with communities and community based organizations and Executive Offices of the Housing Corporation.

Records date from 1974-1996 and consist of committee files from NWT Senior’s Advisory Committee, Housing and Services for the Aged and Handicapped Committee, Senior Management Committee, and Planning and Monitoring Committee. There are also President’s briefing notes, a review of the NWT Housing Corporation, as well as terms of reference and strategies for community housing delivery, and special projects such as the Northern Housing Initiative and Core Need Income Threshold. The bulk of the records consist of internal reports and studies related to NWT Housing Corporation programs, initiatives and program delivery such for Aboriginal housing, and senior citizen housing. There are also records from a Housing Needs Survey, the Homeownership Assistance Program, Community and Program Services (CAPS), and the Community Housing Needs Assessment.

The records date from 1975-1997 and include feedback and documentation from community consultation meetings regarding housing issues, internal reports related to programs and activities such as social housing, International Year of Shelter for the Homeless and the impact of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline on housing. There are also records from the Advisory Committee on Social Housing, NWT Housing Corporation Standing Committee on Social Programs, reports related to the reorganization or corporate restructuring of the NWT Housing Corporation, a consultation report on NWTHC programs and policies, Minister's briefing books, and documentation from a rent scale meeting that was held in Yellowknife.

This accession contains material relating to the Lanky Court apartment complex, including correspondence regarding building issues, an appraisal, and decisions on what to be done with the apartments.