Thank you to the member for the question.
We signalled that $1 billion of the initial $13 billion for Build Canada Homes will be focused on transitional supportive housing. We're looking at modular solutions that can be built within the next 12 months to get people from the street or from shelters into stable, supportive housing with wraparound health and social services. We need provincial partnership to deliver on those wraparound services. Those are critical to ensuring people are stable as they move into homes.
Ideally, we're transitioning those folks through the transitional supportive housing into permanent housing. I think that's been a proven path in many cities. In my city, we built 600 temporary modular homes in 2018 for people who were homeless or at risk of homelessness. There's a very successful track record of people transitioning into permanent housing from that.
We want to see that initial billion allocated, with those modular homes, with supports, up and operating before next winter. That's the big goal here. We are reaching out to partners across the country to deliver on that and to the provinces to fund the services that support the supportive housing. I think it will be a really important initiative for tackling homelessness and making sure we can help people get off the street and out of shelters.