 Thank you Francesco for welcoming us here. Happy to be here with you and MP Tony van Binen for this important housing announcement for the people of Vaughan Mayor del Ducca Steven so good to be back here with you so great to be working alongside you Deputy Mayor Linda Jackson city councillors and staff. It's great to be here with you all We're here today because there is an urgency in our communities There's an urgency to build more homes and to bring the prices of housing down Steven knows this Steven knows this because his city Vaughan is one of the fastest growing cities in Canada He wants people to be able to live here and succeed Including middle-class families and young people and we all know that if we want people to succeed We need more homes in Vaughan. We need more homes across the GTA We need more homes right across the country. That's exactly why we launched the housing accelerator fund To build more homes faster in partnership with municipal leaders There are three weeks. We announced a first meeting with the city of London in the background to accelerate the construction of the housing Today we are announcing a second meeting this time with the city of Vaughan And we will continue to make many other announcements in the next few weeks and the next months The housing accelerator fund works as an incentive for municipalities to cut red tape and remove barriers When we launched the fund we were clear that there are too many barriers that make it too hard to build the homes We need in our communities We were clear that local rules had to change and local governments with our support Had to think bigger and even more ambitious Well today's agreement with the city of Vaughan will help us fast-track the building of thousands of homes in the coming years The agreement will allow for high-density development near public transit including go train and subway stations It'll prioritize apartment buildings and affordable housing And it will amend a zoning bylaw to allow for the construction of up to four residential units on a single lot