Thank you for the invitation to speak. As you can see, we're not women, but half of our people are women.
I'm the executive director for the National Aboriginal Housing Association. With me is Jim Lanigan, who is the treasurer of the association.
NAHA was set up in 1994 in response to the cap that was put on new social housing units by the federal government in 1993-94. We are an advocacy organization. We do not receive any funding from anyone. We've been hobbling along on a small budget derived from our membership and from contracts we've been doing, but we are committed to the ideas of representation and of housing people.
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