In B.C. it doesn't quite work like that. The province has the money and decides what kind of program it's going to fund, right? It might decide to fund seniors housing, and then it'll put out a request for proposals for seniors housing. It might decide to cover family housing and put out for that. In practice, what it has done is decided to cover street homelessness issues, and it puts out proposals for that.
Yes, the province gets the money, and yes, there's a process, but prior to that process the province has decided what type of housing it wants to fund.