Madam Speaker, to follow up on my previous question, I think the hon. member was confused. What I said was that 250 houses were built in Kingston, because the wartime project was about prefabricated family units.
I was a city councillor, and I know what happened during the 30 years of deferred federal investments in social housing, which is very different from what Liberals like to call affordable housing. The member suggested that social housing, non-market housing, had a stigma. I would put back to him that the people seeking refuge in tents right now, who will be facing the winter months coming up as snow begins to fall, would absolutely love to be in social housing.
Social housing does not have to be built in the ghettoized style of the 1960s and 1970s. Lots of models all across Scandinavia and Europe show that medium density, appropriate density, in urban settings could be applied with a social context. That gets back to the heart of this debate, which is about definancializing housing.
How does the hon. member intend to take the power, the corporate capture, of the real estate market away so we can go back to providing not just affordable homes but social homes to those who do not have the income to match the astronomic rise in the cost of living?