Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Welcome back to the committee, Mr. Minister.
Around your neck of the woods, I think over 7,500 people are waiting for affordable housing, and the wait-list is about two years. Despite an election commitment to put an end to the practice of renovictions—where landlords evict tenants and improve the property, sometimes just superficially, and then jack up the rents—we know that they're still going on in areas like Dartmouth and Halifax.
One of the ways to push back against that would be to empower community organizations with experience in delivering housing to acquire buildings instead of having them sold to the types of landlords who engage in renoviction. I didn't hear anything about a non-profit acquisition fund in your opening comments. I'd like to know if that's something your government is seriously considering in this budget cycle.