Maximising the social benefits of Public Housing Renewal 

The Hallmark Research Initiative for Affordable Housing is a University of Melbourne research group focused on fostering cross-faculty research initiatives on the topic of affordable housing. The Initiative brings together outstanding researchers from across the University of Melbourne to address the housing affordability crisis. Supported by an advisory group of industry experts, the Initiative draws on a depth and breath of knowledge to create affordable, healthy, inclusive, sustainable communities. The Initiative aims to develop innovative solutions to a complex issue that can't be solved by one discipline alone.

Hallmark Research Initiative Affordable Housing

In late 2016 the Victorian Government announced a program to redevelop public housing estates across Melbourne, with a goal of 10 per cent increase in social housing. 
The Public Housing Renewal Program (PHRP) will directly impact the lives of residents of the public housing estates and will profoundly transform large pieces of publicly-owned land. Residents, local governments, affordable housing advocates and non-profit and private housing providers all have a stake in ensuring that this important opportunity has the most effective and socially just results.
This event will bring together key stakeholders in a discussion about ways to maximise the social benefits of public housing renewal. This will include a questioning of the rationale of the current PHRP, a discussion of social mix rhetoric and experience of stigma, the scale,timing, geography and process of redevelopment, stock transfer to housing associations and international best practice considerations for public housing renewal. 
The event will begin with a panel discussion from 11 - 12:30 about the above topics with ample opportunity for questions and participant input. Questions can be asked on the day or you can send in questions or comments in advance when you register for this event. The panel will feature researchers from the University of Melbourne, resident advocates and representatives from State Government. Following this, facilitated discussions designed to tease out key concerns or solutions will occur from 1 to 3. The goal of the day is to provide a forum for open discussion, supported by input from an expert panel and a skilled faciltiator. 
We welcome to the panel;
Dr Matt Palm, a Post-doctoral research fellow with the University of Melbourne
Lesley Dredge, Chief Executive Officer of the Community Housing Federation of Victoria 
Dr Belinda Robson, Senior Policy Advisor, City of Yarra 
Mark Feenane, Executive Officer and Board Secretary of the Victorian Public Tenants Association
Dr Kate Shaw, a Future Fellow researcher with the Univeristy of Melbourne
Hamdi Ali - Resident and Secretary of the Carlton Housing Estate Residents' Services 
The panel will be chaired by Mark O'Brien, CEO of the Tenants Union of Victoria. 
All participants are welcome. Please join this important discussion.  
This event is generously supported and funded by the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute and the Melbourne Social Equity Institute, both part of the University of Melbourne. It is a collaboration between Transforming Housing and the Melbourne School of Geography.

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