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The 3rd National Affordable Housing Exchange is to be held on 26 and 27 July 2012 at Australia Technology Park in Sydney.
The lack of sufficient safe, affordable and appropriate housing continues to be a top concern around the nation. The relationships between the funding, development and management of affordable housing – especially rental housing – are key areas of public debate.
The need for an increase in the supply of affordable housing, and the planning, regulatory, and funding frameworks to support this growth continues to be a primary focus across the public, private, and community sectors in Australia.
Significant funding provided through the Commonwealth’s Nation Building Economic Stimulus Program and other initiatives such as the National Rental Affordability Scheme have sought to relieve the pressure on affordable housing around the country.
Each of these areas of affordable housing activity is generating new work and opportunities for organisations that finance, develop, or manage affordable housing programs.
While these programs have helped to increase partnerships between organisations and companies operating in different parts of the broader affordable housing industry, there is room for greater collaboration between housing industry players.
Aims
The CHFA National Affordable Housing Exchange aims to respond to this policy and funding backdrop by providing delegates with an opportunity to network with housing professionals, gain news skills and directly meet potential partners and suppliers from industry, government, and the community sector.
The National Affordable Housing Exchange will continue to provide participants with a detailed, meaningful, and rich engagement, both with each other as well as with industry experts.
The Exchange consists of three primary components:
- A series of ‘master class’ style workshops on relevant areas of interest to increase participants’ knowledge and expertise in a particular area, with the objective of improving their skills base and increasing their delivery of affordable housing. In particular the Exchange will examine the impact on the sector post stimulus and what opportunities exist for leveraging private investment. The Exchange will look at innovative housing products as well as financial issues such as triple bottom line reporting.
- Plenary sessions featuring presentations by prominent members of the housing industry on relevant housing issues; and
- An expo/marketplace featuring housing-related businesses, suppliers, and industry representatives working in the affordable housing space, e.g. building construction suppliers, insurance and legal providers, software and IT vendors, architectural firms, property management consultants, etc.
Who Should Attend
Anyone involved or interested in affordable housing solutions should attend. Preivous Delegates have come from a wide cross section of housing industry, many of whom are—or plan to become—engaged in the development or management of affordable housing.
The event is nationally focused, and will bring together not-for-profit housing providers and housing industry players, including property developers, financial institutions, and other industry representative bodies, as well as all levels of Government, academia, research and IT.
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