Land, Sharing and the Law: Innovative solutions to the housing crisis

Now, some 50 years later, housing affordability and homelessness are a national crisis.  Local communities are sceptical that government and corporations can fix the problems and the search is on for new community-led initiatives that can more quickly provide affordable homes, dignity and security.

Climate change compounds the challenge by increasingly impacting upon the existing housing stock. The 2022 floods that devastated the Northern Rivers, demonstrated the challenges of recovery and re-homing in the wake of more frequent and extreme natural disasters.

Future solutions to our current crisis may or may not resemble the land-sharing movement of the past, but a focus on sharing, and the courage to challenge existing governmental and corporate models of housing with innovative community led solutions is one that we have little choice other than to embrace. 

This conference seeks to invite, empower and encourage innovative, community led responses to the wicked problems of housing and homelessness facing our communities.