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National Housing Conference - Melbourne 2009 will aim to bring together policy makers, housing and allied service providers, tenants, researchers, planners, not-for-profit housing and homelessness organisations, and the private sector all under one roof. It will provide an opportunity to share innovative ideas in housing and homelessness research, policy and practice. The conference will explore the crucial associations between housing, people, place, community and nation.
National Housing Conference - Melbourne 2009 will cover following topics under the main theme "Housing in a new era: building the connections":
- Achieving sustainable urban growth
- Housing and support: life outcomes for residents
- Healthy homes: re-thinking design
- Housing the future: aspirations and expectations
- Beyond affordable housing: opportunities and challenges
- Homelessness prevention and early intervention
- The role of housing in closing the gap
- Achieving affordable housing in a new era
- Housing responses for women and children experiencing family violence
- Having a say about our homes: how to get tenant participation working
- Delivering economic and social objectives though housing opportunities for the private sector
- New frontiers for housing policy: education, health, employment
- Strengthening the not-for-project housing sector
- Breaking the cycle of homelessness
- Housing finance
- Improving tenant choice
- Recovering after disaster
- Social and institutional barriers to greening
- Economics: financing housing outcomes
- Climate change, emissions trading, and carbon emissions: what does it all mean for housing?
Organizer
Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
