Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. It's a pleasure to appear before the committee today on behalf of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, or CMHC. CMHC's mission is to help Canadians meet their housing needs. We do this through our mortgage loan insurance activities, market analy

Status of Women committee  There are a number of programs. We have staff out on the ground across the country, who are working with proponents, including those who are building shelters or transition housing. The idea is to ensure that the services are available for those who are in the housing and in the

Status of Women committee  Specifically with regard to building more seniors' housing, there's a target of 7,000 units. In the national housing strategy, affordable housing and sustaining affordable housing.... For example, continuing the subsidy that was due to end will ensure that 330,000 units continue

Status of Women committee  We work with folks along the continuum, whether that's in a shelter, whether that's for affordable housing, or whether that's somebody trying to enter home ownership. We underwrite a project. As I said before, we don't want to put somebody in a home that they are eventually going

Status of Women committee  So, maybe you would...?

Status of Women committee  I would say that the new stress tests are making sure that CMHC is there in good times and bad times, and that the stress tests that we're doing are prudent tests at this point in time.

Status of Women committee  It was a Department of Finance—

Status of Women committee  Not being a market analyst, I can't give you the statistics. But I do know that there is a balance between ownership and supply of apartments, and we support the full spectrum of availability. What we want to do is make sure as we're working with folks that they are able to affor

Status of Women committee  The results are the key. They are available right across the country, from rural and urban regions and from the north, and we have analyzed them. We noted differences in rural regions.

Status of Women committee  No, our work is in urban areas only. We have resources across the country to work with those groups. We also have small programs to help youth and to offer start-up funding to launch their initiatives.

Status of Women committee  I don't know all 41. We've been at it for a number of....

Status of Women committee  Yes, we fund both on and off reserve. We spoke about the five that had been funded in the last two years. In the previous 10 years we've funded some renovation, and those are new construction. We've done some renovation and new construction in the previous number of years. We di

Status of Women committee  Accessibility in the national housing strategy is a priority. It would be the community groups building or renovating the units who would decide what the community demand was. There would be no issue whatsoever with them renovating or building for accessibility. Those things woul

Status of Women committee  The shelter enhancement program is for on reserve. We have staff who work with first nations across the country. They're talking with the folks about whether or not they want to invest in the shelters at any given time. There's an annual application process as we receive our budg

Status of Women committee  Absolutely.