The HIA Building Better Cities summit will be held on Wednesday 26th October at the Hilton Hotel Sydney and will bring together a range of experts to consider the challenges and the opportunities for Housing 2030.
By 2030, Australia’s population will exceed 30 million. Whilst many live, work and play in our major cities, the pressure to grow is changing where we choose to live and what we choose to live in.
Over the next decade our houses will change – the question is how? Where will they be, what will they look like, how will we build them and who will be living in them? Cities or Centres? High rise or houses? Manufactured or hand-made?
The program includes a wide range of topic material including:
- An industry open to change. To meet our growing housing demand in the most affordable and timely way possible, it’s important for our industry to be innovative, flexible and open to change.
- Housing 2030: Where can we live? Housing in 2030 faces many challenges – do we need new horizons and new ways to provide homes that are affordable and in places where people want to live and work.
- Gain without pain: What cost for disruption & innovation? Disruption and innovation can be exciting and yet when it comes to their homes, most people like things just the way they are.
- Population 101: Who is the home buyer of the future? Today’s housing industry needs to understand who the home buyers of the future will be with a population @ 30 million.
- Density done well – what does it take? What do we need to do to make it happen? Where has it been done? How can we re-make our cities when the footprint is already there?
- What makes a home people want to live in? How different will homes of the future be? What will consumers want in 2030?
- What we build with, how we build it and who will build our homes in 2030? The online world is driving change, builders will increasingly find it impractical, if not impossible, to keep repeating the past. But what do the homes of the future look like?
- What’s holding us back? What will it take to change the way we build houses? Can houses be more affordable, public transport more effective and infrastructure needs reduced if we let go of the car parking space?
- Delivering Housing 2030. Growing our cities will always be challenging. But what is the cost of not changing? Can we afford not to? How can we guide our cities to grow and meet the needs of 2030?
Speakers include leading political commentator Jim Middleton as Master of Ceremonies; Ross Greenwood, Finance Editor for the Nine Network; Tristan Sender, CEO of GoGet; and Dr George Quezada, Research Scientist with CSIRO.
For more information and to register please visit http://hia.com.au/MiniSites/Summit.aspx
