Thank you, everybody, for being here today.
We're here to discuss the supplementary estimates. I will focus my time with Minister Duclos.
There are some funds of $7 million for the implementation of the agenda for sustainable development goals, SDG. Keeping in line with that, I want to talk about housing and homelessness. There's no question that this country has been facing a national housing crisis. It didn't happen overnight. This has happened with decades of poor thinking and vision. In fact, in my riding we see this every single day, and it's challenging. How do we move forward? It's not just the federal government. It has to be all orders of government working together to fix this crisis.
I was one of the first people to do a round table on the national housing strategy. I was glad to see what I saw come out in the national housing strategy. To point out a couple of things, the government doubled the funding for the homelessness partnering strategy. In my riding and the greater Vancouver area, that means about $14 million per year to fight homelessness. Likewise on housing, according to the numbers I've seen in my riding alone, the government has invested more than $1.3 million in new housing projects, in addition to subsidizing more than 2,200 housing units. These are real things that affect people in my riding, in my home. British Columbia is one of those epicentres where we have challenges that we need to work on.
My question is twofold. First, how is the government working to implement the national housing strategy so that the money that's already flowing continues for the next decade? Second, with the current homelessness partnering strategy funds ending this year and the new homelessness strategy funding starting April 1, what's the government doing to make sure there are no gaps in the funding?