The housing and accommodation issues for our personnel are a key point for us. It's extremely important. Having been moved more than 13 times, if my count is correct, we understand the need to provide proper support for our folks, who we are asking to serve and to move regularly as part of their duties.
We do understand the need, and we understand as well that the housing issues are also lived and experienced by Canadians overall, but we are putting forward many initiatives to facilitate housing and enable our members to be more mobile. Currently, we have a few things ongoing. We need to understand that we currently operate 11,700 residential houses in 27 different locations for our members. We are building 1,400 new homes over the next five years on various bases. We are renovating 2,500 units as well, to maintain our residential homes in good condition over many different bases across Canada.
This is also layered with benefits for our folks. The needs are very different depending on the families and their personal situations, so it's a layered approach. Not all members require the same types of supports as we are asking them to serve. We have the Canadian Forces housing differential as well. That has been implemented to enable our folks to move, and 28,000 CAF members are actually benefiting from it.
Not everything is perfect. We understand the difficulties that our members are encountering, but we are regularly gathering the feedback, understanding the experience and consistently striving at improving that situation for all of our members.