Science and Research committee  I think that's a brilliant idea. I hope you'll come to our symposium in the fall, because we're trying to upstream ideas about how to deal with that piece. I believe there is no single housing solution. Most of us on our research team fundamentally believe that, even if students aren't getting SSHRC-CGS or other grants, as soon as they enter graduate school, there should be some form of housing subsidy to help guarantee that basic need.

Science and Research committee  I can give you two very concrete examples from our own network. Two of our research partners are the University of Alberta and Nova Scotia Community College. At the University of Alberta, they introduced a safe home project for students. It's an emergency-type of housing for students who are intermittently, not chronically, experiencing loss of shelter for a variety of different reasons.

Science and Research committee  It's interesting that you say that. I will tell you that, as a result of some of the work we did with Nova Scotia Community College in the Maritimes.... They grabbed onto this very public story because everybody knows a student who is suffering because of housing. The Government of Nova Scotia announced, four months ago, five new housing facilities for students through the college as a result of understanding this need.

Science and Research committee  Thank you. Greetings. I want to thank the committee for inviting me as a representative of the Post-secondary Student Homeless/Housing Research Network. I would also like to add in response to my colleagues that I actually was a CAGS recipient of the Distinguished Dissertation Award in 2014, so thank you.