Mr. Chair, every Canadian deserves a safe and affordable place to call home. Our government recently announced $1 billion for the rapid housing initiative to build 3,000 affordable housing units across the country.
What we have done is to ensure that there are two separate streams. The first 15 municipalities—including Montreal and Quebec City—across Canada that have the highest number of individuals experiencing homelessness will receive money as part of the first envelope of $500 million, but there's another $500 million in the project stream, which is available to organizations and other municipalities that have rapid housing projects. Again, when I talk about the rapid housing projects, I mean building housing quickly or buying buildings, buying hotels or motels, and converting them quickly into housing. The point is to move people into housing within 12 months.