For me, from personal experience and what I know from my clients is that it's almost like day care; it's essential. If you don't have proper housing or affordable housing, then you can be forced to stay in unhealthy relationships, living in very precarious, insecure situations with an aggressive partner, or whatever. You're forced to live with threats. You're forced to deal with these things. It's unacceptable in a country like ours. A national housing plan and strategies, some kind of legislative framework, would essentially be meeting some basic needs so that women wouldn't have to worry about getting home at the end of the day and wondering whether there's going to be some violence, or worried about their kids, or rats.
I'm thinking of some of these amazing mentorship programs I've just heard. But you go home at the end of the day and if you're dealing with a landlord who is sexually harassing you and you have no other choice but to stay there, or you're living with mould, it doesn't work. You're living in insecure situations. That is a basic need that needs to be taken care of.