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PROGRAM
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PRE CONFERENCE – SITE TOURS
There are four tours on the pre conference program – two 1 day tours departing by bus from Darling Harbour at 9.00am and two half day tours departing at midday. A brief outline of each tour is listed below:
1. Full Day - BUILDING STRONGER COMMUNITIES - $75.00pp
Date: Wednesday 20 February
Time: 9.00am from Darling Harbour
A day tour visiting Cranebrook and Toongabbie public housing estates and Mt Druitt, the largest public housing estate in western Sydney with 5,500 properties. Highlights will be physical upgrades of dwellings, partnerships with government and community service providers, resident employment and training programs and community renewal from the residents' perspective. Tour includes a visit to Cranebrook Community Hub, an environmentally sustainable community garden, catering and entertainment by local residents, morning tea and lunch.
2. Full Day - ESTATE RENEWAL THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS - $75.00pp
Date: Wednesday 20 February
Time: 9.00am from Darling Harbour
A day tour visiting Airds/Bradbury, Minto and Bonnyrigg - three housing estates in south western Sydney undergoing or about to undergo major redevelopment, including integration of social and private housing, in partnership with the local councils, Landcom and private developers. Hear about improved services and opportunities for residents living on the estates. Tour includes entertainment by local residents, morning tea and lunch.
3. Half Day - PERSPECTIVES ON COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT - $25.00pp
Date: Wednesday 20 February
Time: 12 noon from Darling Harbour
A half day tour visiting Riverwood in southern Sydney. For the last ten years, this estate has undergone major community regeneration works and these are continuing. The Riverwood community has been involved in the work undertaken through this program - delegates will visit the Riverwood Community Centre and hear the community's perspective on the process to date. Tour includes wetlands walk, viewing of community garden, entertainment by the local residents, lunch and afternoon tea.
4. Half Day - INNOVATION IN AFFORDABLE AND COMMUNITY HOUSING - $25.00pp
Date: Wednesday 20 February
Time: 1.00pm from Darling Harbour
A half day tour highlighting an array of innovation in the affordable and community housing sector. Run largely by community based organisations, these housing services are delivered in a way that blends flexibility, responsiveness and accountability. This tour takes a look at three different approaches that encapsulate the sector's capacity to improve the lives of people who need housing assistance, including those who require additional supports to live independently.
Important Note:
Access to the Francis Street site requires delegates to climb four flights of stairs. It is regretted that a lift is not available. This tour is therefore unsuitable for delegates with a disability or health problems that prevent the climbing of stairs.
*Full programs for the site tours will be available shortly. |
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| KEYNOTE SPEAKERS |
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Rachel G. Bratt
Rachel G. Bratt has been a Professor in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University, since 1976. From 1995-2001 and from 2004-2007, she served as chair of the department. Since 2001, she has been a Fellow, Joint Centre for Housing Studies, Harvard University. She received a Ph.D. from MIT in Urban and Regional Studies.
Professor Bratt’s research is focused primarily on the role of non profit organisations in supplying decent, affordable housing to low-income households. She is the co-author or author of dozens of articles, appearing in both academic and popular outlets, as well as a number of reports about community development corporations and regional non profit housing organisations, which have been funded by the Ford Foundation, the Fannie Mae Foundation, and the Housing Partnership Network. She has made scores of presentations to academic, advocacy, and lay audiences. Professor Bratt is the author of Rebuilding a Low-Income Housing Policy and a co-editor of Critical Perspectives on Housing. Her most recent book (co-edited), A Right to Housing: Foundation for a New Social Agenda,was published by Temple University Press in 2006.
In addition to her academic activities, Professor Bratt worked as a professional planner in the City of Worcester, Massachusetts and has served on a number of boards and advisory committees: the Consumer Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank (1984-1986); the Multifamily Advisory Committee of MassHousing (1983-1996); and the board of the Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association (1990-present). In her local community, she was on the Wayland ( Massachusetts) Planning Board and is a current member of the Wayland Housing Partnership (2004-present). |
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David Mullins
David Mullins is Professor of Housing Policy at the University of Birmingham and in 2007 was Visiting Professor at OTB at the Technical University of Delft. He is co-author of a recent book on Housing Policy in the UK and has published in a wide range of academic journals. He is currently working on a book on understanding networks in social housing in Europe and is researching the ‘organisational logics’ of scale and local accountability in the housing association sector in England. He has undertaken research on mergers and alliances, stock transfers, diversification, group structures, refugee housing partnerships and neighbourhood governance involving English housing associations. He is a co-ordinator of the European Network for Housing Research Working Group on Social Housing: Institutional and Organisational Dynamics. He has worked in local government, for the Housing Corporation, a board member of several housing associations and is currently a charity trustee. |
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Hamish Macdonald
Mr Macdonald is Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Becton Property Group. He has many years of international, national and local experience in the property and construction industry gained with Civil and Civic and Lend Lease before joining Becton. He has driven the growth and diversification of Becton, having been in the senior management team for over a decade. Hamish is an Associate of the Securities Institute of Australia and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. |
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John Doling
John Doling holds the chair of Housing Studies in the School of Social Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK. He has undertaken research widely on housing, particularly on home ownership within a comparative perspective. During the last six years he has co-ordinated three European Union funded projects, involving research teams from across the member states. From March 2008 he will, with 11 research partners, lead the 3-year DEMHOW study into demographic change and housing wealth in Europe. His publications include: Comparative Housing Policy: Government and housing in advanced industrialized countries (Macmillan: 1997); (with Agus and Lee) Housing Policy Systems in South and East Asia (Palgrave: 2002); (with Jones Finer and Maltby) Ageing Matters: European policy lessons form the East (Ashgate: 2005); (with Ford) Globalisation and Home Ownership: Experiences in eight member states of the European Union (Technical University of Delft Press: 2003) |
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Hugh Mackay
Hugh Mackay is an Australian psychologist, social researcher and writer. From 1979 to 2003, he published the quarterly research series The Mackay Report, which now continues as The Ipsos Mackay Report. Hugh is also the author of four novels and seven non-fiction books, and writes regularly for several major Australian newspapers. |
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Steve Pomeroy -biography and photo to be added shortly
Kendal Marsland – biography and photo to be added shortly
Julian Disney – biography and photo to be added shortly
Ken Morrison – biography and photo to be added shortly
David Dawes – biography and photo to be added shortly
Ken Horsham – biography and photo to be added shortly
Michael Lennon – biography and photo to be added shortly |
