Wednesday 27th November 2013, Vavasour Suite, Aviva Stadium, Dublin, 9.00am-5.00pm
Focus Ireland’s annual conference, Working to End Homelessness: ‘New Solutions to Finding Homes’ took place on Wednesday 27th of November from 9.00am to 5.00pm in the Vavasour Suite of the Aviva Stadium in Dublin.
For this conference, Focus Ireland brought together a range of leading researchers and practitioners to help us learn from international experience on housing supply and policy. For a short video on what the conference entailed please click here.The conference was opened by Ms. Jan O’Sullivan T.D., Minister for Housing and Planning, who set a new deadline earlier this year to end long-term homelessness by the end of 2016.
In order achieve this deadline – and to tackle and prevent homelessness nationwide – it is essential to increase access to affordable housing for vulnerable households.
However, securing access to affordable housing has become an increasingly serious barrier for people trying to move out of homelessness, and housing shortages are beginning to push up rents and house prices.
Within this context – how can we provide homes for all the people who need them without creating a new housing bubble?
Focus Ireland brought together a range of leading researchers and practitioners for this conference to examine this issues and help us learn from international experience on housing supply and policy.
Amongst them, Ken Gibb from Glasgow University spoke at the event about investment in social housing as a financial stimulus, along with Barry O’Leary, CEO of the Housing Finance Agency.
The conference also featured results of a Focus Ireland feasibility study on ‘Social Rental Agencies’ and other new research.
The complete agenda can be viewed here.
