I can jump in.
You asked a question about why we're not seeing any.... The stats are continuing to go up.
We know that times of economic crisis or difficulty are accompanied by increasing violence levels.
What we are not seeing in current approaches is a dedicated carve-out in the funding that we have for affordable housing, especially for shelters and transitional housing. We need to have a dedicated carve-out.
You asked a question about statistics. Current estimates are that 40% of all wait-lists for affordable housing are for women, children and families, a lot of them fleeing unsafe situations. We need to see equivalent levels of funding—a dedicated carve-out for women and families facing violence in order to have the tracking numbers that—
