I think the thing worthy of mentioning is that your colleague Blake Desjarlais mentioned the unmet need, the need in urban indigenous communities.
Concerning the proposal call, when NICHI received the $281.5 million, we received 447 proposals valued at $2.2 billion. We had $281 million. Those are projects from coast to coast to coast.
We funded 65 projects that our project selection advisory council had selected for us to fund. We've entered into a contribution agreement with 61 of those proponents now. We have four contribution agreements that are left to go. We have committed a little over $200 million in a short period of time.
I think that would speak to some of the challenges that your colleagues were asking about with regard to dealing with CMHC and other bureaucracies. I think we dealt with it much more quickly because we were able to.
I want to go back to the $2.2 billion in need, and we got $281 million. That's funding a number of projects. That's everything from mental health projects, where we have mental health people coming out of mental health services and being funded, to youth housing for at-risk youth.
Not only did we fund those types of roofs over heads in the shelter, but we also funded some projects. The project selection advisory council selected projects where we engage with youth about future housing needs and preparing themselves for housing in the future, so that they're not growing into a position where they don't have housing and, all of a sudden, it's a surprise to them. We need to start to educate some people about housing earlier.
We're doing those kinds of things and funding those types of projects. The need is tremendous, and we're trying everything we can do to meet it.