Certainly. I couldn't agree more in terms of the importance of investing in our people and in their doing their work even better.
The affordable housing fund projects, like the one that you announced in your community, are really how we're delivering right now on affordable housing at scale.
Build Canada Homes is the next phase, but right now the affordable housing fund is delivering billions of dollars of investment in affordable homes. Many of those projects are a mix, so there are private sector builders that we're giving a lot of opportunities to. They include a mix of market and below-market housing.
Again, this has been a very successful and large-scale program as part of the national housing strategy. We want to see that kind of work basically scale up with Build Canada Homes through a different portal but with similar types of projects that have opportunities for a mix of housing and a mix of incomes. However, we have to achieve significantly more non-market housing. We need more co-op housing, student housing and seniors' housing.
About half of Canadians need some help with their housing costs. That's what we're trying to address here with Build Canada Homes and with building off the success of the affordable housing fund. Many of those projects are progressing right now through funding, through investment. That will continue for the next couple of years as Build Canada Homes scales up the work and really takes over the focus on affordable housing.