I'm going to answer that in a different way, I think.
We need to learn from the lessons of the past. In 1993, we stopped funding the national housing program. Twenty-five years on, we got it. In 1968, a very similar government committee was meeting on poverty and trying to figure out what we needed to do. Very similar questions were asked and similar strategies were employed.
We need early learning intervention, absolutely. We need day care, absolutely, but we need to ask ourselves what our civic contract is that we are going to adopt. As Nicole was saying, what do we believe to be true in terms of our responsibilities and the values that we have to enforce among our citizens, and not be subject to the sway and the times and the changing conditions, policies, and governments?
We have a homelessness crisis now that started in 1993. It was probably there before, but it certainly started in 1993. If we don't take the responsibility and say that our citizens have a right to be fed, to be housed, to be educated, to be cared for—all those things—and enshrine them in such a way that they can't be subject to shifting conditions and political tides, we will be having this conversation again.