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Mr. Chair, investment is secondary to people's living in homes. We need to build homes that people live in, not invest in.
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Mr. Chair, I think the focus here needs to be on building homes for people to live in, not building homes for investors to own.
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Mr. Chair, I am here to answer questions on behalf of my department for the investment in affordable housing across Canada, and infrastructure and housing.
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Mr. Chair, I am not sure what the phrase “the cost of government” indicates, but development cost charges need to be covered for the housing infrastructure, and how that is split between governments—
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Mr. Chair, I am proud of the work that the city did to house thousands of people who were homeless in Vancouver and build social and supportive housing.
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Mr. Chair, homelessness is a huge challenge across the country, and that is why it is a top priority for us to tackle it with affordable housing.
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Mr. Chair, it is important that nobody of any age is forced to be homeless, and the investment needs to be made—
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Mr. Chair, as I have said, homelessness is something that we all need to tackle together. We need to work together at all levels of government to solve this.
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Mr. Chair, I will tell them we are about to make the biggest investment in tackling homelessness that Canada has ever seen, and we hope to have their support.
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Mr. Chair, I do not have the number at my fingertips, but we have to make sure seniors are not at risk of homelessness.
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Mr. Chair, the plan is to build more affordable housing across Canada than ever before in Canadian history.
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Mr. Chair, the Liberals are very focused on rolling out this plan. We have already delivered a GST cut for first-time homebuyers, and we will continue that work.
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Mr. Chair, “build Canada homes” is going to focus on building affordable housing across Canada at a scale that is unprecedented.
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Mr. Chair, the Liberals have a big endeavour ahead of us to get to 500,000 housing starts a year, but we are committed to getting there, working with industry and all the provincial and—
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Mr. Chair, for the first seven years of my mayorship, it was a Conservative government that did not invest in affordable housing in Canada and made it very difficult for mayors.
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Mr. Chair, with reference to roads and highways that have received funding over the past decade, more than 58,000 kilometres of roads and highways have received funding from the department.
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Mr. Chair, there have been many more homes than that built across Canada, in part with funding from the department.
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Mr. Chair, I am not clear how this has anything to do with the Housing and Infrastructure department.
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Mr. Chair, the BC Ferries investment is not part of the ministry's estimates.
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Mr. Chair, again, the member should direct those questions to the appropriate minister; they are not related to the department.
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Mr. Chair, I am familiar with the program, yes.
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Mr. Chair, the MLI select program is part of CMHC.
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Mr. Chair, it really varies with the application through CMHC. There is quite a range depending on the scale of the project for CMHC.
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Mr. Chair, on the MLI select program, I can get the member some detailed information about those questions. I would be happy to do that.
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Mr. Chair, I am not clear on what the member is asking through that question. If he could clarify—
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Mr. Chair, as far as I know, this is not an inflationary program.
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Mr. Chair, CMHC has been very successful in rolling out programs, particularly over the past 12 months, with very expedited funding for affordable housing across Canada.
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Mr. Chair, the price of housing is set by the market. What we need to focus on as a government in Canada is affordability and making sure there is a supply of affordable homes.
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Mr. Chair, the cost of the housing infrastructure can affect it, depending on the market across Canada. The market in some markets, such as Toronto and Vancouver, is much higher than the percentage-driven—
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Mr. Chair, we have seen the prices of housing escalate across the country and in many cities around the world. This is a global challenge but one we have to—
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Mr. Chair, I spent 10 years as mayor of Vancouver and a lot of time in homeless shelters and opening homeless shelters—
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Mr. Chair, I think we can all agree that communities affected across Canada, including Abbotsford and the Fraser Valley—
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Mr. Chair, I just outlined that the disaster mitigation and adaptation fund is for the prevention of these disasters and there is more resilient infrastructure to prevent future problems.
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Mr. Chair, Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada utilizes different funding models to meet specific goals and outcomes. While, in some cases, there are allocations that are based on population, the department also deploys competitive and merit-based models, or even combined funding models, depending on what outcomes are sought. Needs for the different types of infrastructure vary across t…
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Mr. Chair, our focus is on building affordable housing. The MLI select program is working right now. We are going to focus on building more affordable housing.
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Mr. Chair, I understood the member's question to be whether rural areas are served by this program. That is correct.
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Mr. Chair, I think the general definition of affordable is that it is less than 30% of people's income.
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Mr. Speaker, those units remain under development. They will be developed. They will be built. Those homes will be delivered as promised. We would appreciate the support of the other members of the House for all of these housing initiatives going forward, of which we have many. We have the most robust housing agenda in the history of this House. We expect robust support for that plan.
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Mr. Speaker, I will caution the member opposite that there are no wrong places to build housing in Canada. We are focused on building housing across this country. We are focused on building affordable housing across this country. The reason there are new ministers here like me is for our new plan to deliver affordable housing all across Canada in communities that need it.
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Mr. Speaker, we are going to deliver the homes that are put forward in that plan. We are also going to use lands across Canada to build more affordable housing. Our goal is to roll out more affordable housing than this country has ever seen before in the years ahead, and we expect the support of the members opposite. This is going to be a partnership across Canada, on federal lands, with our commu…
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Mr. Speaker, we are focused now, in this new government, on delivering housing. We are going to deliver the housing that Canadians elected us to deliver. We ran on the commitment to have the most aggressive housing plan the country has ever seen, and we are going to deliver on that plan.
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Mr. Chair, development cost charges in Vancouver obviously vary depending on the metro region and the municipality applying those. Typically they are cost recovery for the infrastructure required to build the homes.
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Mr. Chair, I am honoured to be here today. Canada is definitely in a housing crisis, and it has been building over decades.
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Mr. Chair, Canada's housing crisis is definitely related to a lack of supply over many decades and also to the lack of the Government of Canada's being directly involved in building affordable supply.
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Mr. Chair, the overall price of housing needs to come down across Canada. We need to have more affordable housing in this country. We are not talking about intervening in the market to change individual home prices; the market sets those prices. The Government of Canada should be building more affordable housing to bring the overall cost down.
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Mr. Chair, the cost of homes, in terms of housing infrastructure and the infrastructure required to build homes on, varies around the GTA. It varies with the building typology. It varies with the—
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Mr. Chair, the prices of homes have escalated across Canada, and that is why we need to build a more affordable supply.
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Mr. Chair, while I am curious as to whether the members opposite blame the mayor of Nanaimo for that housing price increase, or perhaps the premier of B.C., in this House, we all need to take responsibility for building affordable housing.
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Mr. Chair, there are two parts to this. One is to build the strongest economy in the G7 and raise incomes. The other is to focus on building affordable housing.
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Mr. Chair, it is very difficult right now for people to afford to buy homes in Canada, and that is why we have to focus on affordable supply.
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