For those interested in UK housing policy, its histories and future directions, I would like to remind you about an event which will be taking place tomorrow in Manchester.
It is a free, public event, no advance booking required.
Manchester Metropolitan University
Annual Research Programme
You Are Here: A public debate on housing
histories and futures
People’s History Museum, Left Bank, Manchester M3 3ER
Saturday 18 February 2012
ALL WELCOME – NO BOOKING REQUIRED - FREE
The idea of the day is to debate and scrutinise issues relating to
public housing in Manchester and Liverpool, in a way that acknowledges housing in a
historical context (mainly from 1960s onwards) but also addresses existing spaces of
action/ opportunity/ hope/ change which seek to address the UK housing crisis. With
this in mind, we aim to include consideration of the following:
- community engagement in housing
- how councils have delivered housing policy in recent history
- the changing relation between municipal and private sector in housing
strategy
- changing attitudes to home ownership
PROGRAMME
11.00 Craig Horner (PHM/MMU History
Dept)
Brief introduction and welcome
11.10 Lynsey Hanley
11.50 Peter Shapely
12.30 LUNCH
[not provided but the PHM Left
Bank café is in the same building]
1.15 Susan Fitzpatrick Introduction to afternoon session
and brief intro to context of Housing Market Renewal Intitiative in Liverpool
1.30 Ed Gommon
1.50 Blase Lambert
2.30 Panel Discussion with questions
from the floor
(chair Susan Fitzpatrick)
Lynsey Hanley
Peter Shapely
Ed Gommon
Ronnie Hughes
Blase Lambert
Steve Radford
3.30 Close
Notes on speakers and panellists:
Lynsey Hanley-
Lynsey is a journalist and author, most recently publishing Estates: An Intimate History (2007)
Peter Shapely -
Peter is a historian based at Bangor University. He has recently published The Politics of
Housing: Power, Policy and Consumers, Manchester University Press, 2007)
Ed Gommon -
Ed started the Northern Alliance Housing Co-op in 2009. The aim of the co-op is to bring
empty homes in Granby back into use, at affordable levels of rent, and to retrofit them
making them highly energy efficient.
Ronnie Hughes -
Residents of the Granby 4 streets currently live amongst 129 bricked up properties. A Sense
of Place was founded by Ronnie Hughes and his wife Sarah Horton, in 1995. They are change
agents, who work in social enterprise, regeneration and health. They have worked with the
residents of the Granby 4 Streets in Liverpool on their campaign to rebuild and refit
homes since May 2011, both facilitating and film making
Blase Lambert -
The Confederation of Co-operative Housing (CCH) is the national representative trade body
for housing co-operatives. Blase has been a board member of CCH for the last 15 years, He leads the CCH’s
support and advice service and has recently written ‘Financing Co-operative and Mutual Housing’ and the ‘CCH Accreditation Framework for Housing Co-operatives’.
Steve Radford -
Steve is a councillor at Liverpool City Council. He is leader of the Liberal Party Group; Chair of
the Housing Community Safety Select Committee
Susan Fitzpatrick -
Currently teaching Geography at Strathclyde University, Susan has written about the interplay between cultural policy and Housing Market Renewal in Liverpool leading up to the City's Capital of Culture year in 2008
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