The region of Durham used to fund our gender-based violence shelter $91,000 for our work on housing. We lost that funding because we are not considered, now, to be working with homeless folks. We are considered to be working specifically with gender-based violence survivors. The region decided to separate these.
As Ms. Decker, I think, said earlier, there is a very clear divide—in more recent years, in my experience—between funding going to gender-based violence survivors and funding going to folks experiencing homelessness, which we all know is the same. We also know women in the homeless sector were most definitely survivors of gender-based violence at some point in their lives.
