Certainly. What we are seeing, as of right now, November 25, is that about half the community entities we fund—approximately 60 of them, across the country—have implemented the program. It's what we call “coordinated access”.
This is an international best practice—an information system wherein all the service sectors use the same information to know who is homeless in their community and what their housing and support needs are. It can be done in a very efficient and effective way, where people in a community can coordinate efforts to provide the right services to a particular individual. Half of our community entities, across the country, have now implemented that particular.... It's quite a transition and transformational change in how the non-profit and homeless-serving sectors operate. We provide an information system free of charge to help them do that.
We've also worked with the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness to help them provide technical assistance to make that transition. Now, we are seeing, in some communities—Medicine Hat, Alberta, for example, or even Ottawa—reductions in chronic homelessness, because they have implemented coordinated access.
That said, we know we need to do more. That's why, in budget 2022, they gave us a bit of additional funding to work with communities across the country, in order to understand what's working, what we've learned from it after implementing coordinated access, and what more we have to do. This is on top of doubling the funding of Reaching Home to the end of 2025-26, so we can provide more support to communities in implementing this important transformation.