I have worked on housing and homelessness in St. John's for the last eight years, since the homelessness program was created. For women with disabilities, the issue stems from the fact that most of them would never be able to afford their own house because they can't work and they live in poverty.
It's a good start, and I was very pleased to see this funding. I can be positive sometimes. I was very pleased to see the investment in social housing. It is an area that was taken away quite abruptly some years ago, I believe in the mid-nineties, and it created the homelessness problem we have today.
The issue, more broadly, is that all government policies should have inclusion and accessibility principles tied to them to ensure that at the outset, as opposed to retrofits, the women you reference are able to avail themselves of the housing provided.