You are invited to attend a seminar and workshop taking place on Wednesday February 27th to discuss the theme of a new vision and practice for public housing. The workshop will explore what is meant by public housing – moving from residualised social housing to public housing available to a much broader range of incomes. It will explore what is cost rental housing, how would it work, how does it integrate with existing social housing provision, the use of public land, the potential for affordable housing, creating sustainable communities, how can it be financed and who can and should deliver public housing. It will also explore the politics of a new public housing approach - how the wider public can be convinced that this is a good model, in particular how the model can be communicated most effectively to the wider public.
There are a number of models being implemented currently and campaigns being worked on, including proposals being put forward and this session is hoped to contribute to the development of a focused proposal/briefing document for a new vision for public housing. It also aims to contribute to the coherence and communication of these alternatives to achieve broader public and political support.
Atttendance is stictly by invitation please email Rory Hearne to attend. email: rory.hearne@mu.ie
Timetable:
Wednesday 27th February
10am Opening
Chair, Dr Rory Hearne, Department of Applied Social Studies & Housing Justice Research Group, Maynooth University
10.10 am to 12noon Session 1
Delivering public housing and sustainable communities – a new vision and new practices – cost rental, social and affordable homes
· Dr Daithi Downey, Head of Housing Policy and Research, Dublin City Council
· John O Connor, Chief Executive of the Housing Agency
· Dr Sinead Kelly, Lecturer, Department of Geography, Maynooth University
· PJ, Drudy, Fellow Emeritus, Dept of Economics, Trinity College Dublin
12 – 1pm Session 2
Communicating a new model for public housing
· Dr Mary Murphy, Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Maynooth University
· Fergus Finlay, former CEO Barnardos & Home for Good
1pm – 130pm Light lunch provided.
130pm - 3pm Session 3
Developing a new vision for Public Housing
· Simon Brook, Head of Policy, Cluid
· Nessa Ni Chasaide (Fair Rent Homes)
· Dr Lorcan Sirr, Senior Lecturer, School of Surveying & Construction Management,TUD
· Dr Declan Redmond, Associate Professor of Housing and Planning in the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy.
Hosted by: Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute (MUSSI) and the Maynooth University Housing Justice Research Group