Finance committee  Most operating agreements would have been negotiated between CMHC and individual providers in the sixties, seventies, eighties, generally for a long-term commitment. The time is up for these agreements without a renewal of them. Between now and 2040, we're seeing that long-term d

Finance committee  Ms. Boutin-Sweet, thank you for your question and for your support of our sector. I will reply to you in English. When operating agreements expire, and as I've said, that has already begun—we've already seen approximately 800 agreements expire just in the past year or so—provid

Finance committee  We have to find new, innovative solutions. The other option is they close, and when that happens we start seeing evictions. We see increases in homelessness. We see people who really have no other choice, and clearly, that's a last resort. That's the last thing we want to see, b

Finance committee  The needs are so great in social housing right now, as I said in my remarks—in rehabilitation and renewal of existing stock, the need for new incremental units, the need to look at some socially innovative ways to get out of operating agreements once they expire—that at this poin

Finance committee  There have been all kinds of socio-economic studies showing the impact on the economy, on individuals, and on families of a lack of affordable housing. It goes to the heart of the inability to have an education, the inability to hold a job, family breakups, obviously, impacts on

Finance committee  Let me first of all say on the question of shovel-worthy, shovel-ready projects that we've been asked whether the social housing sector has those types of projects ready to go. Let me state unequivocally, absolutely yes, si, oui, ja—however you want to say it. The social housing

Finance committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair. Thank you for the invitation to appear. By the way, congratulations on your election as chair. For those of you unfamiliar with the Canadian Housing and Renewal Association, CHRA is the voice of the affordable housing sector in Canada. Our members rang