The Northwest Territories Seniors' Society will hold a news conference today to release recommendations from the territory's information and privacy commissioner about members' housing concerns raised back in 2016.
The society's complaint against the NWT Housing Corporation focused on the way the GNWT was trying to obtain personal information from its members in order to assess rental rates in public housing units.
Members were asked to sign a document allowing the housing authority to collect personal information, including details about income directly from Revenue Canada.
A society news release states members who approached the corporation to raise their privacy concerns were told failure to comply could result in their rent being raised to full market value and, following that, failure to pay the new rent would result in eviction.