Thank you for the question.
The objective of the Reaching Home program is not to build housing. It is to give communities funds so they can deliver services to people who need help to find housing or temporary financial support for housing.
This program could also help communities design educational programs. It is not meant for constructing buildings; it is for delivering services.
These services are customized to the needs of the individual, potentially addiction services. The person is linked to the actual help that they need depending on their individual circumstances, and that's where we work with non-profit organizations for them to have an information system so that someone who's homeless doesn't have to go through their community to different organizations trying to find the help they need. Instead, it is centralized and coordinated by all the homeless-serving sector within that particular community, and it is an internationally recognized best practice.
Now we are seeing some of the fruits of that practice being put in communities across the country, but we know more is needed, and that's why we're working on, first of all, doubling the funding to those particular community entities over the next number of years so they can do more. As well, we are doing further analysis to understand, once you've actually put in this transformational, coordinated system, what more communities need to be able to deal with this very complex, serious problem.