Beacon’s 2012 symposia coming up
After a two year gap, Beacon’s symposia series is back, and this year it is focused on New Zealand’s national housing crisis.
Our two biggest cities face housing issues that have implications for the whole nation:
- Christchurch (and Canterbury) faces a post-earthquake repair and rebuild of unprecedented scale: 15-17,000 homes to be demolished; 110,000 homes to be repaired with 15,000 homes needing major repair in excess of $100,000.
- Auckland needs 10,000 houses every year for the next two decades. The city’s 400,000 existing homes are poor performers - cold, damp and adding to the population’s health problems
The 2012 symposia series will not only share Beacon’s projects and activities in Canterbury and Auckland, but we will hear about other initiatives to address these issues. Most importantly, the forum will discuss potential solutions for the challenges. The results of the discussions in Christchurch and Auckland will be taken to the Wellington symposium to focus on potential policy solutions.
Beacon hopes to start a conversation between stakeholders from across the sector - from third sector providers, to industry, to local and central government - which will generate housing action plans for both Auckland and Canterbury.
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