As far as housing goes, when it comes to Muskoka and market rent, one of the issues we face here as women accessing housing is that a lot of independent landlords—when I say that, I mean people who have a granny flat or a room in their home to rent out—tend to prefer to use that as an Airbnb situation instead of renting it out long term to someone. That takes places that our women could potentially rent off the market. That leaves fewer units to rent at inflated prices.
I was looking at rentals around here not too long ago. In Gravenhurst, there was a $900 room in a basement for rent. It was fully furnished and had no window, so there was no proper egress. When I first moved here in 2014, I had an 800-square-foot apartment with windows on the second floor, lots of room and lots of light. It was clean and beautiful. That is quite a change over the past 12 years. It's quite something. That's huge.
As I've mentioned, transportation is also huge for women here.