In the municipality of Tantramar, I've created a mayor's round table on housing. We've had two meetings—we've met only in the last two months—to bring in non-profit organizations working in the housing sector to discuss this very issue.
What is the municipality's responsibility for housing? Are we landlords? I know municipalities do that, but not every municipality has the ability to do that. In my community, I think a funding application, from a municipal perspective, would look at supporting non-profit housing. Within our community we have non-profit housing developers who are looking to build a significant amount of housing. They, again, have to go through funding applications. It's not private investment; they're trying to generate the money they need to be able to do this work.
A baseline would be for municipalities to maybe be the go-between among the orders of government to be able to get that funding and then partner with non-profits to be able to do that work.