Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The process is once a client does apply for a unit, staff from the Housing Corporation, project officers, will meet with that client to counsel that client. For example, if a client has two teenage children and one small child, then they will be eligible for a three-bedroom unit. But if a client has six children, then they will be eligible for a bigger unit. So it is all based on the client themselves. So, in some cases, we are building up to five-bedroom units and, in some cases, as small as two.
But we have changed the Housing Corporation program since we got elected. There used to be approximately 30 different designs you could choose from, we got rid of all of those and we made three basic designs: a two-bedroom unit, a three-bedroom unit and a four-bedroom unit. But all of those designs can be expanded on; for example, if you had two children and you moved into a two-bedroom unit and your family got bigger, then you could add two more bedrooms on or one more bedroom very easily, at a later date, and a partition could come out to make the living area bigger. If a client did not want, for example, the screw jack system for a foundation, there would be a dollar amount in his budget. So if he is allowed $4,000 for a foundation system and he wanted to put a basement instead, that would be allowable as long as he picked up the extra dollars.
Also what we made very clear is because we have restricted the designs now to a minimum of three, clients can also choose to build their own designs, as long as it is CMHC approved and it falls within their need. In that way, clients have a lot of ability to do what they want with that unit. But it has to be brought in for the same amount of money and it has to be brought in on time, the construction time. Thank you.