Turning Housing Around: How local partners can transform the housing agenda
2.00-3.15pm, Thursday 19 June 2008, Harrogate (venue tbc)
Supported by the Housing Corporation, Pinnacle and PwC
Turning Housing Around: How local partners can tranform the housing agenda
This event will look to the role that councils can play in developing sustainable and affordable housing and how it should be financed. The debate will assess what the future should be for social housing and look at innovative ways in which councils can support residents, both in the rental and buying housing sector.
Speakers:
Iain Wright MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Communities and Local Government (invited)
Cllr Jamie Carswell, Deputy Mayor of Hackney
Tim Williams, Director, Navigant Consulting
Anthony Brand, Principal Researcher, NLGN
Chair: Chris Leslie, Director, NLGN
Open to all conference delegates.