I want to thank everyone for coming and testifying at committee today. This is an important study. As Sergeant Banks talked about, this is part of the retention issue that we are dealing with in that a lot of people in the military find themselves undervalued. Last week government officials were here. They talked about $40 million a year going in and they built a grand 38 homes in the last two years. They originally identified that they were going to build 1,300 homes over 10 years, and that was five years ago. They only built a total of 137 homes in that five-year period.
We know that there's a wait-list of over 40,000 people wanting to have military housing. We know that according to the minister's testimony there's a need for and a shortfall of another 7,000 homes. We had the Canadian Forces Housing Agency here, and when I said that 19% of the homes that are currently in stock are in poor condition, they said, no, they're just below average.
Would you describe these as below-average homes and compared to what, or are they just in poor condition and we shouldn't be putting our troops in them?