The NHS had lofty aims. It would cut chronic homelessness by 50 per
cent, remove 530,000 families from housing need, renovate and modernize
300,000 homes and build 125,000 new homes with a budget of $55 billion
to be spent over a decade.
But the plan was not universally welcomed.
B.C. economist Marc Lee wrote that “much of the commitment is in the
form of loans not grants, is spread over 10-years and is back-end loaded
(meaning that most of the money is spent at the end of the 10 years).”