Right, and I think that one of the things we have recognized as we've evolved from strictly a housing organization into one that collaborates with necessary services to serve the people whom we're housing—so less focus on the housing, more focus on the people—is that unless we start doing that, we are not addressing the real issues around poverty.
As we said, ending poverty is homelessness prevention. That's one of the things that we've shifted to. We have achieved an end to homelessness as we define it, and built a system that responds rapidly to people who become homeless. Now we need to shift to a prevention focus. We need to make sure that we maintain that model and look upstream, as Wayne mentioned earlier, to keep people from entering into this whole realm to begin with. To me, that is what the strategy should be.
We have lots of investment in real estate strategies and lots of investment in other very siloed approaches to supporting people with social issues, but it is not an integrated approach. From my perspective, as I listen to the quarterback story, I think about how we have evolved in Medicine Hat.
There are lots of communities that tried to vie for that position in the community, but wait until the hard work starts. When the hard work starts, people start to say, “Oh, that's your job. We don't need to be doing that.” There are hard decisions to be made about de-funding programs that aren't doing well. People don't want to be as involved when it gets to that stage of the evolution.