As part of our response during COVID, we added six new communities to the designated communities stream. Those all came out of the rural community funding without taking dollars away from the rural communities, and that allowed us to serve more effectively the rural space.
The three commitments made in the throne speech and in the fall economic statement are about an urban and rural northern housing program that builds on the work our committee has been doing; secondarily, another investment into rapid housing and chronic homelessness with supportive housing; and the third part is deepening the capital commitments inside the social housing and non-profit sector within the co-investment fund to meet the full spectrum of housing challenges we face across the country.
In all three of those areas are expected new investments and additional chapters to the national housing strategy, which has gone from $40 billion at announcement to $70 billion as we move towards solving more housing challenges in Canada.