Thank you for the question.
This strategy does include a requirement to invest in affordable housing, but there are a lot of programs in the National Housing Strategy.
There are some policies that are directly tied to investments in affordable housing, and we can move more quickly by making policy changes, as we did during the rapid housing initiative; however, there are other parts of our response, including some that have been advanced more recently, that are targeted at growing supply more broadly. The apartment construction loan program, for example, provides low-cost financing in exchange for not rent-geared-to-income apartments but rent that will be offered at and below market prices.
Eliminating the GST on new apartments is meant to grow supply more broadly, which jurisdictions that have done similar measures demonstrate will free up more housing across the spectrum, including affordable housing. Some programs specifically target affordable housing; others are more broadly based in their application.