That's an excellent question.
We do indeed need more affordable housing, in particular rental and social housing. For the last three decades, Canada has been lagging in the construction of these types of units. It's been for over three decades that this crisis has been building. That's why, since 2017, with the first ever national housing strategy, we have started to reverse that unfortunate trend. We will do that in part through the use of federal lands and buildings.
Just a few weeks ago, I was able to announce construction of about 2,800 units, many of them affordable, in the next few months, by the end of March, and 28,000 additional units in the next five years. That is twice as many as we have constructed in the last 30 years because of federal lands and buildings. We are speeding up the investments because we know these are needed by middle class and lower-income Canadians.