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Day One | Thursday, 20 February 2025

7:45

Registration Opens

8:30

Housekeeping

8:40

Welcome to Country

Uncle Allen Madden, Gadigal Elder

8:50

Chairperson’s Welcoming Address

Wendy Hayhurst, CEO, Community Housing Industry Association

HAFF Round One and Australia’s Housing Future

9:00

International Keynote: Reimagining Community Housing: A Vision for the Future as a Social Enterprise

Jon Turner, Chief Executive Officer, Link Group Scotland

9:25

How is Housing Australia helping CHPs and developers deliver affordable homes?

Scott Langford, Chief Executive Officer, Housing Australia

9:50

What is the National Housing Supply and Affordability Council’s role, and what does it see as the critical factors to making progress?

Michael Lennon, Member, National Housing Supply and Affordability Council

10:15

Morning Tea

10:45

Keynote: Why a “Big” Vision for Affordable Housing is Mission Possible

Dr Richard Denniss, Executive Director, The Australia Institute

Supportive Housing

11:15

Panel: Designing specialist housing for young people

Facilitator:

Shorna Moore, Head of Policy and Advocacy, Melbourne City Mission

and Coordinator, Home Time Campaign


Panellists:

Lisa Dalla-Zuanna, Executive Officer, Melbourne City Mission Housing


Tara Booth, Lived Experience Youth Advocate, Home Time Campaign


Tyler Adams, Lived Experience Youth Advocate, Home Time Campaign


Liz Cameron-Smith, Co-CEO, The Foyer Foundation

12:00

Panel: What is Housing First and how can we encourage its adoption?

Facilitator:

Kate Colvin, Chief Executive Officer, Homelessness Australia


Panellists:

Danielle McAllister, DDG Policy, Performance and First Nations, Department of Housing and Public Works 


Leah Watkins, Senior Advisor Supportive Housing Impact and Advocacy, Housing Choices Australia 


Tina Ugle, Managing Director, Noongar Mia Mia, Director, NATSIHA (National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Housing Association) 

Regional and Remote Housing & Planning Reform

11:15

Revitalising regional NSW through meaningful partnerships

Dan Lincoln, Head of Development and Growth, Hume Community Housing


Megan Nugent, Director Commercial and Partnerships, Homes NSW

12:00

How can changes to planning regulations help deliver on the National Housing Accord Targets

Helen O'Loughlin, Founder & Director, Strategic Solutions Advisory

12:45

Lunch

Financing New Stock

1:45

Using SPVs to deliver social and affordable housing

Panellists:

Andrew Wise, Advisory, Polis Partners


Shaun Whittaker, Partner, Hall & Willcox

Low Cost Home Ownership

1:45

Low Cost Home ownership  

  • Overview comparison of Aus and UK on the utilisation of different approaches in facilitating first home ownership

  • FHB assistance models operated in Scotland, with a particular focus on shared equity variants

  • The BtRtB model and its potential utility in enabling access to home ownership


Hal Pawson, Professor Housing Research and Policy, Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW


Jon Turner, Chief Executive Officer, Link Group Scotland


Nathan Dal Bon, Chief Executive Officer, Community Housing Canberra 

2:30

Interactive Roundtables

Roundtable A – Get on board the modular Movement to build homes faster

  • Explore how you can use modular construction to deliver homes for your clients

Nicholas O'Neill, Managing Director, Moov Modular


Roundtable B – Introducing SIGMAH: a calculator for quantifying the social and economic benefits of affordable housing projects in Australia


Professor Andi Nygaard, Director Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology


Roundtable C – Driving efficiencies in property management through smart technologies


Daniel Tregurtha, New Business Sales Director – VIC, Detector Inspector


Roundtable D - SDA 2.0:  Disrupting Disability Housing; Expanding, Innovating, and Exceeding Future Community Needs


Lauren Ivanyi, Director & Chief Relationships Officer, Disability Housing Solutions

David Esler, Director, Disability Housing Solutions

3:30

Afternoon Tea

Revitalising Housing

4:00

Delivering great homes in places people want to live

Danny Dracic, Chief Executive Officer, Community Housing Ltd.

4:30

What difference can a strong BTR sector make to Australia’s housing crisis?

Francesca Muskovic, National Policy Director, Property Council of Australia

5:10

Chairperson's Closing Address

5:15

Networking Drinks and End of Day One

Day Two | Friday, 21 February 2025

8:40

Housekeeping

8:50

Chairperson's Welcoming Address

Wendy Hayhurst, Chief Executive Officer, Community Housing Industry Association

The Role of Government

9:00

Federal Keynote

The Hon Clare O’Neil, Minister for Housing, Minister for Homelessness, Australian Government

9:25

Government Panel: Our role in meeting the housing needs of lower income renters?

Facilitator:

Mark Degotardi, Chief Executive Officer, CHIA NSW


Rebecca Pinkstone, Chief Executive Officer, Homes NSW


Nicholas Dowie, Assistant Secretary – Housing Strategy Branch, Department of Treasury


Sarah Amos, Deputy Director General, Social and Affordable Housing Growth, Department of Housing & Public Works Queensland

10:05

Keynote: Supercharging the community housing sector to address housing affordability

Adrian Harrington, NSW State Chair, Housing All Australians

10:30

Morning Tea

11:00

Fireside Chat: Community Housing – an independent’s perspective

Facilitator:

John Engeler, Chair, National Shelter


Senator David Pocock, Senator for ACT

ESG, Sustainability, and Great Design

11:30

Panel: Building better to deliver affordable and sustainable homes for all Australians

Facilitator: 

Alison Scotland, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council


Panellists: 

Davina Rooney, Chief Executive Officer, Green Building Council of Australia


Dr Gill Armstrong, Program Impacts Manager, Climateworks Centre 


Jane Cassidy, National President, Australian Institute of Architects 

12:20

What does local government need to enable the delivery of affordable housing?

Facilitator:

Amy Crawford, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Local Government Association (ALGA)



Panellists:

Amanda Robbins, Managing Director, Equity Economics & Development Partners


Tanya Taylor, Mayor, Willoughby City Council

1:00

Community Integration Case Study: Midtown Mac Park

Chris Bratchford, Executive Housing, Mission Australia Housing


Davina Lomas, General Manager Operations, Mission Australia Housing

Innovative Affordable Housing Models

11:30

Panel: Demonstrating how Community Land Trusts are a viable model for affordable housing in Australia

Louise Crabtree-Hayes, Professorial Research Fellow, Western Sydney University’s Institute for Culture and Society


Genevieve Murray, Lecturer in Architecture, University of Sydney


Kerry Pearse, Project Lead, Waterfall Way CLT


Vivienne Milligan, Honorary Professor - City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney

12:15

Panel: What's the role of smaller CHOs?

Facilitator:

Simon Moore, Managing Director, Moore Advisory


Panellists:

Evan Nunn, Chief Executive Officer, Accordwest


Aidan Lang, Chief Executive Officer, Access Community Housing


Lizz Bott, Chief Executive Officer, Jacaranda Housing

1:00

Defining Affordable Housing – impacts on practice, tenant outcomes and financial feasibility

Facilitator:

Gemma Pinnell, Principal, Right Lane Consulting


Humair Ahmad, Executive Director, Programs and Partnership, Homes NSW  


Sarah Toohey, Chief Executive Officer, CHIA Victoria 

1:30

Lunch

The Power of Partnerships

2:30

Cultivating strong partnerships with State Government development agencies

Brian Motz, Chief Commercial Officer, Housing Choices Australia


James Henry, Director of Property Development, Housing Choices Australia

3:00

What makes a good CHP partnership?

Leonie King, Chief Executive Officer, City West Housing


Andrew McAnulty, Chief Executive Officer, Link Wentworth


Paul Coe, Chief Executive Officer, Birribee Housing

3:30

Afternoon Tea

What Legacy Does the Housing Sector Want to Leave?

4:00

Panel: Hopes and Aspirations for the Sector in 10 Years

Facilitator:

Wendy Hayhurst, Chief Executive Officer, Community Housing Industry Association


Maree McKenzie, Chief Executive Officer, Homes North Community Housing


Liz Thomas, Managing Director, Common Equity Housing Limited (CEHL)


Rebecca Oelkers, Chief Executive Officer, BHC Creating Liveable Communities

4:40

Chairperson's Closing Address

Wendy Hayhurst, Chief Executive Officer, Community Housing Industry Association

4:45

End of Summit

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