The housing system is messy, isn't it? You have homelessness and shelters. You have the people who are homeless and it goes all the all the way up to the “big REITs”, which still only represent less than 20% of the whole housing system. It's a lot of small players, whether not-for-profits or the private sector. It's really hard to bring everyone together. I think the intention is that the policies incentivize people to work.
Your first question, I think, was on how you map it. It's already been mapped. We know where different solutions are needed. I think the “by name list” is intended to serve people all the way from homelessness into supportive housing. We're very focused on that. We have a community organized around there. We're investing federal dollars through Reaching Home, on your behalf, to resolve that.
The challenge is resources. There's not enough being invested. In Halifax, or in rural and remote Nova Scotia anyway, it's not that we don't know what we need to invest in. It's that we don't have enough to make the material impact to house those 745 people who have been homeless for the last six months.
I think we like to dehumanize homeless individuals as well, but when we do our work, we talk about how we need to see their faces. We need to remember who they are. Most of the folks are not what you think. They're not stereotypically there because of their choice. They're there because life has been tough on them. They've fallen into homelessness.
To answer your question, we know what we need to do. It's about resources and it's about the speed with which we can deploy those resources.