How to Fix Housing Affordability in Our Cities – is Supply the Big Answer?

Despite record housing completions in Sydney and Melbourne in recent years (pre-COVID) the argument persists amongst some Government agencies and the property sector, that the only way to improve housing affordability is additional housing supply. We have invited a leading UK housing economist, Ian Mulheirn, who has written extensively on this topic, to share his views with us.

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Ever read a Government report and been a bit suspicious about the quality of the evidence? The Henry Halloran Trust has been working on a project to provide a simple guide to citizens for assessing the quality of the evidence in a Government report. This event explains the method and demonstrates its application using the recent Green Paper by the NSW Productivity Commissioner.

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At this event, we combine the lessons drawn from Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney about the Festival theme and compare our experiences with overseas cities with the help of a distinguished international scholar.

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In the environment of economic crisis generated by the pandemic, there have been calls to abandon the strategic plans for Sydney. Asking the question, “How should plans for places react to changing circumstances?” leads to the second question – “What does a good strategic plan look like?” The current Henry Halloran Trust’s Practitioner-in-Residence - Halvard Dalheim addresses this second question in this session. As part of his residency, Halvard is preparing a comprehensive guide to Strategic Planning.

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Too often the story of crisis is told by only a few actors-politicians and the occasional media darling. Yet in reality, disparate and diverse networks of people actively try to make change.

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2020 has been not only a year of challenges, but also a year of reflection and transformation. Both the 19/20 bushfires and COVID-19 have brought climate change and the human-environment relationship to the centre of our attention. The transportation system plays an important role in carbon emissions and environmental sustainability and has been profoundly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this talk, Melody will discuss how to rethink transportation and health, and to leverage the crises we experience as an opportunity to demand change.

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Hear from the researchers involved in the Trust’s newest and oldest Research Incubators describe their research and its impact on policy.

Research incubators are the Trust’s flagship research projects where a small team of academics supported by a post-doctoral research fellow and additional funds from industry, tackle a contemporary research issue

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Building on the previous festival session Your Apartment Home: Introducing the Australian guide to choosing an apartment this workshop invites participants to put apartment designs to the test. With the help of the co-ordinators of the Guide, they will critically review apartment plans, thinking about layout usability and orientation.

The Halloran Trust has long been concerned that there has been lots of slapdash analysis of the Australian housing market that tries to hide behind a cover of economic jargon. This talk, by our very own research fellow, will help separate the noise from more reliable housing market analysis.

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During this student-led event, participants are encouraged to think creatively to design a small-scale innovative solution for a selected area in an Australian city or region. These “powerful parklets” or micro developments are some of the simplest ways to begin the transition to sustainable and liveable spaces and ultimately making places better.

The summer of 2020 showed us that we are entering a new phase in terms of bushfire risk and urban heat in Australia. This session discusses what this means for architectural form and placemaking.

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The pandemic has had major impacts on people’s mobility and activity. What might this mean for Mobility and Activity after the pandemic. In the case of housing the pandemic itself seems to have been connected with housing conditions, but also occupants and investors have been using their housing very differently during the pandemic. What are the lessons for the housing market and future housing policy?

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