Human Resources committee  I share your concern around the 100,000 homes in three to four years. I think that some of the ways that can be improved are through designating large chunks of land, including federal land, to be developed, and encouraging municipalities to do as the City of Victoria recently di

Human Resources committee  I'm happy to document it. The last thing I would say is that the Federation of Canadian Municipalities has been pretty clear that they want an acquisitions fund as part of HAF, and I think that might want to be considered.

Human Resources committee  Absolutely. There has been a certain amount of evaluation of the co-investment fund, and certainly of the rental construction financing initiative, that shows the outcomes in terms of meeting the needs of people in core housing need are pretty close to zero. The rapid housing ini

Human Resources committee  I will be fairly straightforward and simple. For decades, the CMHC had a definition of affordability that it stuck to. First it was 20%, then 25% and then 30%. Since the eighties, the definition of affordable housing has been 30% of before-tax income. I'm part of the housing as

Human Resources committee  Thank you, MP Zarrillo. I didn't say 33% of funding. The federal government said 33% of funding. That's in the CMHC documents. Frankly, I'm not quite sure where that 33% comes from given that women-led households are 40% of households and they're twice as likely as male-led hous

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Ms. Martinez Ferrada. I'll answer in English. There are two ways that, through working with municipalities, the needs of indigenous women can be respected and met. The first is having set-asides. For instance, 20% of the City of Toronto's affordable housing will be

Human Resources committee  Thanks for the opportunity to speak today. My name is Carolyn Whitzman. I'm with the Women's National Housing and Homelessness Network. We welcome the federal government's commitment to grow the annual housing supply in the country's largest cities every year, creating a target