I'm going to talk about Parks Canada. I mentioned that there are 44 vacant homes. We talk about sustainability over time. We were able, through various government programs, to raise the capital to take one of those vacant homes. Parks Canada didn't have the capital to do so. Not only did we invest the money in the home to create a duplex for two families—I think they were two three-bedroom homes—it's like paying your rent in advance. Now we've created 30 years of affordable housing. There's no debt on that. We can operate it. It's sustainable and easy. There are not a lot of operational costs attached to that.
The other piece to that is that the people who did the work on the home are part of a construction social enterprise. You're actually preventing youth from falling into homelessness because they're doing the work there. They're launched in the trades where they make a living wage and have meaningful work. There are 43 more of those homes sitting vacant with land available. It's things like that.
It is tough when you talk about the debt-ratio piece. We're looking at a small house that has a big piece of land in Newmarket. We want to work with Habitat for Humanity to do a mixed kind of rental and ownership model, but through the current programs offered at CMHC, it's really hard to get that mix to make it affordable for us as a non-profit over the long term and to balance that out. The more rent-geared-to-income units we offer, the more unaffordable it becomes. You want to put some market in there. To truly make all of those units below market rent or rent geared to income we'd need a heck of a lot more support than some of the CMHC programs are providing at this moment. It takes innovation and different partnerships.