That's a very good question.
We would love to be able to collect data to conduct follow-up and to know where people are going. It's a goal, but unfortunately we don't have the funding to do it. However, according to our estimates, about half of refugee claimants will go to their network, whether it's their family or the people they met during their migration journey. The other half are people who will instead need to go through shelters, which may or may not be government-run, depending on the provincial context.
For our part, The Refugee Centre has a transitional housing program. Our organization has developed this expertise. What we raised in our brief is that housing is not sufficiently funded, unfortunately, and that the expertise really lies within the community sector. On our end, we are still able to offer this housing, at a cost that is three times lower than that of the hotel rooms subsidized by the federal government at the time, in Niagara Falls.