In the 1990s, just over 5% of all homes in Canada were non-market community housing. Despite the investments of a national housing strategy over the past seven years, we've actually fallen behind. It's closer to 4.5% now. We have not kept pace with population growth and the growth in the number of household formations.
This is why setting those kinds of targets in legislation, or requiring the agency or Crown corporation to publish those targets, is important for knowing that we are able to reverse that trend and get to where we should be among our OECD and G7 peers.
