Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Going to my next point that I raised in my previous set, and that was emergency housing realities in view of six-month waiting periods. Now I think a lot of these obstacles I referred to earlier boil down to something, which it's hard to integrate into government policies, and that's common sense and some discretionary latitude for LHOs to use their own discretion to assess what is an emergency, what is a real need, what is something that needs to be responded to in terms of a housing need. It doesn't matter whether you're talking about people who are hard to house, or people who need emergency housing or people who, you know, it's just not a perfect science. There's unusual circumstances surrounding this from time to time. There's things going on in people's lives, there's family break-ups, people try things, they may even move south, they want to come back, things don't work out. Sometimes there needs to be some discretionary latitude and that's why LHOs have boards and that's why there are community representation on it so they can make those kinds of decisions. The Minister had mentioned before, Mr. Chairman, that they do hold houses for students, so if somebody doesn't want to go away and upgrade their education and wants to come back to the community, but doesn't want to go to the bottom of a waiting list again for housing, they hold it for students. Are there any other circumstances under which people could be away and get back into public housing without having to go on a six-month residency-type waiting list? Thank you.
Jane Groenewegen on Item 17: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Item 17: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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