Thanks, Madam Chair, and thank you to everyone for being here. That was great testimony to hear from all of you with the experience and ideas you bring to the table.
It's interesting because I think it was Jakki—if I can call you Jakki, first of all—who I know has been in the industry for 23 years. You gave a lot of stats, which I think is great, but in the same breath, when we hear from Raman and have heard from some of the bureaucrats, the stats and the data just aren't reflective of the real crisis, and it's a really tough thing to solve when you don't even have the real numbers to solve this issue.
We have a tent city in my community of Peterborough—Kawartha. Housing really seems to be the crux of a lot of what we're seeing with a lot of these issues. It's a recipe for disaster. If there's no housing, if there are no supports, I would assume your risk would go up significantly when I think of some of the young women I've met who are living homeless in my community.
If I could go to Monica, do you think supportive housing for victims would be beneficial to managing this crisis, and having supportive housing especially when we heard about immigrants? There was just so much testimony here, I don't want to single one person out, so if there's somebody who wants to put their hand up to answer this question first, please do, as there's just so much here, because immigrants are also an issue when we we're looking at housing.
I see Monica, you're nodding a lot, so I'll turn it over to you, if you don't mind. I'll get you to answer where housing fits in this.