Yes, thank you.
The development of housing projects is an obstacle course. If the goal is to build 10,000 units in one year, and we begin 10,000 projects, we will not meet the goal. To meet the goal, we would have to being twice or maybe three times as many projects. For some projects, things start off well, but problems come up along the way, slowing things down. They are finished eventually, but not quickly.
So if we start two or three times more housing projects than the goal, it is definitely possible to reach the goal in the intended timeframe, whether that is two years of five years. But if they are spread out over five years, we will not reach the goal in five years.
We have seen this with the completion of projects in Quebec. For programs that were spread out over several years and where extra ones could be added, we were better able to meet the housing targets as compared to when things were tight, without recurring programming, and when administrations had to choose the exact number of projects. In those cases, the projects were not all completed within the expected timeframe and the goals were not met.