Status of Women committee  No.

Status of Women committee  I'll get the exact standard and provide it. There is a standard. In my speaking notes, I talked about universal design. Universal design is built so that, as the population ages, it's really easy to make those adaptations. That's a way of ensuring that it's there, but also, in our standard, if you're above 20%, we would favour that as well.

Status of Women committee  I think that we have the tools that we have. One of the tenets of the co-investment fund, for example, is to work with others. It's based on partnerships to try to leverage the funding that is available to us so that we can do more with what we have. We try to work with the province, municipality, private sector, public sector and community sector to leverage the resources that we have at our disposal.

Status of Women committee  For sure. We work with the groups that are there. I'll talk about two things. As part of the national housing strategy, there's the technical resource centre, which is a $70-million program for the sector by the sector. We're working with some proponents at the moment to try to finalize a contract with them so they will be able to service that capacity for the sector by the sector.

Status of Women committee  No.

Status of Women committee  The way we've set up our application process, women and children are a priority. All things being equal, we will err on the side of going to a shelter. Our folks are out there on the ground, working with groups to try to bring in the projects. It's absolutely targeted at the most vulnerable folks.

Status of Women committee  Yes, the federal community housing initiative, which is part of the national housing strategy, was announced in the most recent budget. I went from 2016, the front-end stuff, and now I'm in the federal community housing initiative, which started April 1, 2018, so the first year of that.

Status of Women committee  I'd have to get the detailed scale for you, but there's a prioritization. Vulnerable groups would include seniors, women and girls, and indigenous populations. They are considered vulnerable groups. Two projects being equal, we would err on the side of going with the more vulnerable, and we're out there trying to develop projects with the groups.

Status of Women committee  A number of years ago, through the partnerships with the provinces and territories, the renovation funding that CMHC had administered in the past was transferred to the provinces and territories. Provinces and territories may have—and, in many cases, do have—those adaptations. In the national housing strategy, there's a requirement for us to improve accessibility by up to 20%.

Status of Women committee  I was going to say that, through the initiative for affordable housing for provinces, where the federal government contributes 50% of the funding, there is a renovation component, so speaking to the local service manager would be the place to go. That's some federal funding that's being topped up by the provinces and territories.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  I'll step back. In my opening remarks, I talked about budget 2016, and that was a several-billion-dollar investment that started money toward the most urgent and pressing matters. I talked about there being some 6,200 units; $200 million specifically for seniors was in there. We doubled the investments in affordable housing.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  I think we could get our market analysis folks to provide more in-depth numbers. As well, we're doing two studies at the moment that were launched in November. We're trying to gather more information on the most vulnerable populations. I'm not sure of the exact end date and when that information would be available, but that should provide some additional information.

Status of Women committee  We don't have anything specific, but through the national housing strategy we have innovation funding that can test...if we had a group who were interested in that. There's nothing specific, but we can test innovation to see if it works so we can replicate that, and that might form the basis of some policy advice we could put forward.