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Community Housing 2025

June 4, 2025 – June 5, 2025

The Community Housing Industry Association NSW is delighted to announce that Community Housing 2025, which returns to the Sydney Masonic Centre, will be held on Wednesday 4 June 2025 and Thursday 5 June 2025.

Community Housing 2025 is the premier event for the not-for-profit community housing industry in NSW. It will showcase the latest evidence, policy debates, and best practice examples underpinning the delivery of social, affordable, and key worker housing by the industry and our valued partners.

To register your attendance, head to the Community Housing 2025 registration page.

If you would like to receive email updates about Community Housing 2025, subscribe to the mailing list via the website.

If you have any questions about Community Housing 2025, please contact our conference secretariat at [email protected].

We look forward to seeing you in 2025!

Sydney Masonic Centre

66 Goulburn Street
Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia + Google Map

Confront the Crisis in Western Sydney forum

February 22, 2023 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Join us for the Confront the Crisis in Western Sydney forum, to call on our leaders to confront the housing crisis in our region.

There’s no question we are in the midst of a housing crisis.

Across Western Sydney, there are 55,000 families and individuals living in housing crisis and more than 17,000 on the social housing waitlist. Rents are skyrocketing, and vacancy rates are at a record-low – forcing every day families into housing stress, or even homelessness.

With a State Election just around the corner, now is the perfect time to put pressure on our state leaders to act. They are listening more carefully than ever to what people in our state want.

That’s why Evolve Housing, Business Western Sydney and the Confront the Crisis campaign are inviting you to be part of the Confront the Crisis in Western Sydney forum.

We’ll hear from people who are facing the housing emergency, as well as experts in the housing and business sectors. We’ve also invited local MPs and candidates in the upcoming election to be part of it, to hear first-hand how their communities are being impacted.

Will you join us for this important forum, and join us calling on each and every State MP, each and every party, to Confront the Crisis?

More details to come on the speakers, but register now to make sure it’s in your calendar!

Note that doors open at 9.30am for a 10am start!

This event is brought to you by Evolve Housing, Business Western Sydney and the Confront the Crisis campaign.

Date: Wednesday 22 February 2023

Time: 10 – 11am (doors from 9.30am)

Location: Parramatta Square Business & Events Centre, 4 Parramatta Square, 12 Darcy Street, Parramatta, NSW 2150

This is a covid safe event – if you feel unwell, please stay home.

Free

Sydney Masonic Centre

66 Goulburn Street
Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia + Google Map

Housing for All NSW Election Town Hall Event

February 16, 2023 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Join us for Housing for All, a pre-election summit on ending homelessness and confronting the housing crisis in NSW, hosted by Joe Hildebrand.

There are more than 57,000 individuals and families on the NSW social housing waiting list in NSW. Many of those people will wait over 10 years to access a safe place to call home.

Homelessness in NSW continues to increase, while the supply of available housing people can afford diminishes, and access to support is strained. This event will outline our shared challenges, present solutions across industries and provide an opportunity to hear from our political leaders to outline their commitments for change.

This free event will take place during the NSW state election campaign, and is a chance for our political leaders, the sector, and the community to take another step towards a future where everyone in NSW has a safe place to call home.

The event will be MC’d by Joe Hildebrand, Australian Journalist who will be joined by a panel of speakers including Hal Pawson, City Futures Research Centre UNSW, Lord Mayor Clover Moore, The Hon Rose Jackson, Jenny Leong MP, Alex Greenwich MP, Adina Cirson, The Property Council, Mark Degotardi, Community Housing Industry Association NSW and Trina Jones, Homelessness NSW.

If you care about homelessness and ensuring people can access safe and affordable housing, join us and add your support to making positive change in NSW. This is a public ticketed event – all are welcome. We encourage you to attend in numbers and invite your team members, people with lived experience of the housing crisis, colleagues, and allies to join.

Date: 16 February 2023

Time: 1 – 3pm (doors from 12 noon)

Location: Sydney Town Hall, Lower Town hall (enter via Druitt Street)

This is a covid safe event – if you feel unwell, please stay home.

Free

Sydney Masonic Centre

66 Goulburn Street
Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia + Google Map

Confront the Crisis in the Illawarra summit

February 7, 2023 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 pm

Join us for the Confront the Crisis in the Illawarra summit, so together we can find practical solutions to the growing housing crisis in our region.

23,000 households are living in housing stress in the Illawarra, and there’s a vacancy rate of 0 in our region. There’s no question we are in the midst of a housing crisis – and it’s having major social and economic impacts.

The summit, facilitated by ABC Journalist Melinda James will bring together land owners, the business community, state and local government representatives and the community sector. We will discuss real solutions and latest research to CONFRONT THE CRISIS.

Housing Trust and the Confront the Crisis campaign are inviting you to be part of the Confront the Crisis in the Illawarra summit.

We’ll talk about the effects of the housing emergency, but also discuss practical, workable solutions to bring our community out of the housing crisis. We need to act now to build a sustainable region for the future.

At the forum, you’ll hear from leading industry experts and have an opportunity to join the conversation.

Will you join us for this important forum, and join us calling on each and every State MP, each and every party, to Confront the Crisis.

The campaign is putting pressure on all parties to commit to real, long-term investment in community and affordable housing in the Illawarra, ahead of the NSW State Election.

At the event you’ll hear from:

Local housing experts
Major employers
Business community
Developers and land owners
Key workers living in the region

Register now to help be a part of the solution.

More details to come on the speakers, but register now to make sure it’s in your calendar!

This event is brought to you by Housing Trust and the Confront the Crisis campaign.

Free

Sydney Masonic Centre

66 Goulburn Street
Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia + Google Map

‘Confront the Crisis’ Campaign Launch

November 16, 2022 @ 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm

Join us for the launch of the Confront the Crisis campaign, hosted by journalist Sarah Harris.

NSW is in the midst of a housing crisis.

With interest rates and rental prices rising, more people are struggling to keep a roof over their heads.

Vacancy rates have plummeted across the State – in many areas, rental housing is neither affordable or available.

There are 50,000 families and individuals on the social housing waitlist.

The housing market is broken, with supply falling well short of housing demand.

And the people on low to moderate incomes are most affected by these changes.

They are pensioners, young people, women and children, and the unwell.

They are also the workers that keep our communities running – teachers, nurses, cleaners and many more.

That’s why we’re launching a campaign calling on each and every State MP, each and every party, to Confront the Crisis.

The campaign will put pressure on all parties to commit to real, long-term investment in community housing ahead of the NSW State Election.

Hosted by journalist Sarah Harris, who grew up in social housing, you’ll hear from:

A panel of people with first-hand experience of the housing crisis who are on the social housing waitlist, or now living in community housing
Mark Degotardi, CEO of Community Housing Industry Association NSW (CHIA NSW)
More speakers to be announced!

Register now to be part of it. We’ll send you an email with details on how to join the online event after you register.

Free

Sydney Masonic Centre

66 Goulburn Street
Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia + Google Map

Community Housing 2023

May 10, 2023 – May 11, 2023

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The team at the Community Housing Industry Association NSW are excited to announce the dates for the 2023 Community Housing Conference. Community Housing 2023 will be held on 10-11 May 2023 at the Sydney Masonic Centre.

Community Housing 2023 will showcase the latest evidence, policy debates, and best practice examples underpinning the delivery of social and affordable housing solutions by the community housing industry and our dedicated partners.

Further details including how to register and speaker lineup will be announced soon. In the meantime, if you would like to receive email updates about Community Housing 2023, you can subscribe to the conference mailing list via the website.

If you have any questions about Community Housing 2023, please contact our conference secretariat at [email protected].

Conference website: www.communityhousing2023.com.au

Sydney Masonic Centre

66 Goulburn Street
Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia + Google Map