Thank you very much for the question, Ms. Desrochers.
For 20 years before my current position, I managed a non-profit housing company that was mixed-income housing. In fact, before I was on staff there, I was a tenant there. It's where my oldest child was born. I was paying market rent alongside folks who paid different levels of rent.
I would encourage the Government of Canada to think in terms of a national housing strategy that targets different income bands. Build Canada Homes has provided us with a convenient framework of moderate, median, low, very low and above-median incomes. We need a healthy housing system that works for all of those income bands.
We need a healthy market housing system and, for people who are not served by the market, we need a healthy non-market housing system. That includes rents at different levels. You can almost imagine coming up with strategies, initiatives and interventions for each of those income bands to ensure that there is housing that is adequate and affordable for all people in Canada.
