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How big data can help with affordable housing
A just-launched big data software platform is promising to help affordable and co-housing developers easily locate appropriate sites, including those currently off-market.
Should journalists be climate activists? Antidote festival grapples with big ideas
Tim Flannery, Maria Ressa and Denise Ho speak truth to power at Sydney Opera House event that electrifies audience
Shortlist for City of Sydney’s house challenge to innovative affordable housing
Seven entries have been shortlisted for the City of Sydney’s house challenge, featuring innovative ideas for increasing affordable housing supply and reducing housing stress.
New housing models a welcome trend for the Illawarra: Urban Development Institute of Australia NSW
The Illawarra needs to embrace new housing models to deliver affordability to the next generation, according to a leading development industry body.
The Urban Development Institute of Australia NSW says the changing demographics and rising housing pressures mean more residents are seeking out co-living arrangements, multi-generational living and adaptable homes.
Alternative Housing Ideas: How We Can Reimagine the Way We Live
Sydneysiders can hear international architects and innovative thinkers reimagine the way we live at the Sydney Town Hall on Friday 15 November.
The free City of Sydney event, Alternative Housing Ideas: Reimagining how we live, is part of the 13th Sydney Architecture Festival, a week-long yearly festival presented by the NSW Architects Registration Board.
Tone on Tuesday: On affordability
This year the Sydney Architecture Festival is focusing on affordability. Architects and affordability. My first reaction was to laugh out loud. You’re kidding right? Exquisite oxymoron. Talking to the taxman about poetry. Thank you, Billy Bragg.
Seven entries shortlisted in City of Sydney’s Alternative Housing Ideas Competition
World-renowned environmentalists, scientists, climate change experts and indigenous groups will meet on 3 October in London to create a roadmap for pioneering, country-led solutions to climate change.
COMMON EARTH CONFERENCE
World-renowned environmentalists, scientists, climate change experts and indigenous groups will meet on 3 October in London to create a roadmap for pioneering, country-led solutions to climate change.
CO-WHAT?: Alternative housing models
No longer just left standing on the edge of the field but rising stars – or threats to the way in which we understand property ownership – are the various emerging forms of co-housing. Co-housing presents solutions that reach across boundary lines and build physical spaces, fostering meaningful relationships.
Christchurch community housing project gets ratepayer money
An affordable housing development in central Christchurch will go ahead after getting a $450,000 loan from ratepayers. Backers of the not-for-profit Madras Square proposal say the money allows them to push ahead with a project that will eventually build between 150 and 220 homes on a Crown-owned 8000-square-metre site opposite Latimer Square.
reGeneration Rising! Conversations about regenerative practice
On December 19th, 2019 I had a Zoom call with Jason Twill and Dominque Hes (who joined us half way through the call). Jason and Dominque have been instrumental in building a network and growing capacity for regenerative practice in Australia — both in their different roles of working with the building industry, with communities and in academia.
FORUM HEARS CASE FOR COMMUNITY LAND TRUSTS
Affordable housing expert Dr Louise Crabtree, a senior research fellow at Western Sydney University, and Jason Twill, director of urban advisory and property development firm Urban Apostles, told the forum the commodification of land is the primary challenge facing many cities.
2019 Green Sports Alliance Summit Recap
Click the video above for a quick look at the 2019 Green Sports Alliance Summit in Philadelphia, PA.