Affordable Housing: Local Solutions Forum (Free)

The Bellingen & Nambucca Affordable Housing Local Solutions Forum focuses on encouraging a range of local solutions to the national affordable housing crisis.

With great speakers coming from near and far to talk about different approaches, the forum will bring together a range of stakeholders including local government, home and land owners, developers, planners, architects and designers, potential investors, financial institutions, real estate agents, service providers, other government representatives and interested community members.

This forum is about exploring local solutions for affordable housing and will be of interest to anyone wanting to learn or get involved with different approaches to affordable housing.We will explore innovative and practical ways to grow affordable, well-designed and homes for people living on the Mid North Coast of NSW that are appropriate to current and predicted demands.

We want to share information which encourages groups of people and relevant agencies to take great ideas forward and turn them into practical actions and hope that some people who come to the forum will form new projects to work on ideas for affordable housing in the Bellingen, Nambucca and greater Mid North Coast region.

Speakers include:

• Gary White, NSW Chief Planner
• Karen Walsh, CEO NSW Shelter
• John Martin, Emeritus Professor La Trobe University
• James Brown, CEO Common Equity Ltd.
• Hanna Ebeling, Portfolio Manager SEFA
• Heather Bolslter, The Shedders
• Anna Bloemhard, Bundagen
• Tricia Helyar, Local Architect
• Gary Flomenhoft, Community Land Trust Associates
• Wroth Wall, Wall & Co Lawyers

Thursday evening will include an evening dinner with academics Ben Spies-Butcher (Macquarie Uni, NSW Shelter & COTA) and Louise Crabtree (Uni Western Sydney) at Cedar Bar and Kitchen. Tickets for the dinner are $50 and available through sticky tickets.

To view full program and speakers bio, click here.