Thank you.
In identifying our infrastructure plans, we have been very clear to recognize the need for different kinds of infrastructure in order for us to be successful. We talked yesterday about our need to make significant investments in transit systems, in transportation, because we recognize that's very important for trade. It's important for people to get to and from work. We made some significant investments in trade corridors because we know that, in particular for businesses, it's critically important to get that infrastructure so they can be effective.
Those are the things that people might quickly jump to when they think about infrastructure, but your point is a valid one. I think back to when I was chairman at St. Michael's Hospital, and the doctors there would always tell me that when we think about health care, we need to think about housing first. It's fundamental to our economy that we have the capacity to provide housing for people so that they can be effective participants in our workforce, so that they can actually share in the benefits that we're trying to create through our growth efforts.
Social infrastructure, building housing, can be a very important foundation from which we can be successful as an economy. That's one of the key reasons we've put a significant amount of infrastructure money into that area. We believe that creating housing can actually be a generator of immediate economic growth in terms of jobs, as well as long-term economic stability.
Concerning the green infrastructure, I think all of us know that life would not be quite as good if we didn't have waste water systems that worked, so as we have impacts from climate change, which are really happening across our country, we need to think about how we respond to those. Having the infrastructure that can enable us to be successful there is critically important. We will continue to think about all forms of infrastructure as critically important to us as we build an economy that will work for today and for generations to come.