Home on Borrowed Land: Residential land leasing and housing attainability in the Northwest Territories
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the Northwest Territories, the practice of leasing land from the government evolved out of the territory’s settler colonial roots, and in many communities little has changed. However, this unique practice has received little academic attention. This study explores the evolution of government land policy in the NWT from the Dominion Lands Act to “Land is Life,” and lays out the spatial trends and economic impacts of residential land leasing in the territory. While residential land in the largest communities in the NWT is by and large situated within the typical Canadian framework of privately-owned, fee simple land, the same cannot be said for the territory’s smaller communities, where more than five hundred households continue to lease their land directly from the Government of the Northwest Territories. Residential land leasing impacts majority-Indigenous communities the most, resulting in many residents paying the government a yearly fee to lease their own land. In a territory experiencing a housing crisis, the attainability of land becomes a key piece to the puzzle, and the current system, while beginning to evolve, merits critical attention.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".