Veterans' House is an initiative coming to Ottawa, led by the Multifaith Housing Initiative here in Ottawa. There are others like it elsewhere in other population centres in Canada.
The way they are conceived and designed is not around brick and mortar; it's around the experiences you want to create or recreate for the residents, individually and collectively. The designers don't start with a square-footage room entitlement; they start with what experiences you want to create here that allow you to journey from the aggravating factors that have kept you on the street to new and positive interdependencies that lead you and keep you off the street, actually fully recovered and sustained.
The answer is yes, there are those who are building to that. There are probably places that are actually doing that. They are designed around the experience and the interdependency and the relationships we're trying to create with the individuals and in the new population.
The neat thing about a Veterans' House model is that it comes baked with what Cheryl has described. It has a lot of that attraction back into a reconnection with a military culture and a military identity that you used to take for granted, that you lost and now you're reconnecting with it.
So the answer is yes, there's a lot of merit in it, and it's great to see it coming to some places.