I said the housing accelerator fund, and maybe in some other programs. Where I'm going with that is here we are, two years into the program being announced, and the third announcement was just made yesterday. I just looked at the third news update. It's the third in the entire country.
The point is that it's taking an accelerator fund to accelerate housing two years on. Applications aren't even being approved and shovels aren't in the ground. Likely, with the climate we have here in the east coast, you won't be putting shovels in the ground until next year at least, but again, that depends on permitting, availability and so forth.
The point is that when we have these programs, it's A for an announcement all the time and an F for follow-through.
I take your point about paperwork in terms of what's needed. Today, in the midst of the housing crisis in every part of the country and having to do a study to prove the housing need, the irony is that it's probably quite broad everywhere, such that any form of housing would be welcome—obviously, in different forms and numbers in different communities, but having to do a study is just one of those extra added layers.
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation is a federal agency. I hear a lot of complaints from municipalities about added costs and timeline delays in doing that. I go back again to many municipalities lacking examples of being able to take federal programs and bring them down.
Could you advise the committee here on what applications have been successful in the region in, say, the last three or four years, as the housing crisis has been in its aggressive form?