Workshops
Theme: Delivering Today
Can We Build It? Yes We Can!
Description: Delivery - what do we need to know planning, managing, financing and building three 15 minute presentations with 15 minutes of Q&A. This is a delivery focused session that outlines in practical terms the process, the risks, the ways to identify and manage the risks, the considerations, and the key elements that need to be in place to deliver new housing supply with the provider as the driver of that process. – looking at this through three distinct lens – project management from an idea through to a finished community development, and finance – if there is no money then there is no delivery, so how do we finance appropriately, and the mechanics of construction delivery in a changing context.
Audience: Community housing providers, governance, management and project delivery staff who are considering the development of new homes.
Affordable Housing for Older People – A Crisis and Solutions
Description: We will need another 400,000 homes for older renters by 2050. How will we address this emerging crisis and what solutions can we identify? Opportunity to hear about and join the doors for dignity campaign. Small group work looking at creative solutions.
Audience: Anyone interested in housing solutions for older people, no matter your role or organisation.
Leading Change in a Changing Environment
Description: Change is a constant in the community housing sector — and with it often comes uncertainty, resistance, and fatigue for the people we lead. Understanding why change feels hard, and what your team needs to feel capable of navigating it, is one of the most valuable skills a leader can develop.
In this workshop, we'll explore the psychology of change and what people need to feel safe and supported through uncertainty. We'll introduce a simple change management framework as a practical lens for leading change, before rolling up our sleeves to apply it — working together to generate real, actionable ideas you can take back to your organisation.
Audience: People managers and leaders in any functional area who would like to gain knowledge and skills to support their people. Also suitable for other staff who would like to better understand change and uncertainty they are experiencing along with tools to support themselves and peers.
Accessible, Affordable, Adaptable and Safe Housing
Description: This workshop session uniquely blends lived experience, design insight and delivery on the topic of delivering Accessible, Affordable, Adaptable and Safe housing today. Through panel conversations, case studies and an activity - participants explore why housing benefits everyone and the resources to achieve this.
Audience: For anyone interested in how accessible, affordable, adaptable and safe housing can be delivered in practice. It may be of particular interest to architects and designers, community housing providers, planners, funders, advocates, and those involved in building or retrofitting homes.
Kevin Anderson
Whangarei Accessible Housing Trust
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The trust was established in 2006 and residential housing is the primary objective and the principal service offered. We provide wheelchair accessible homes at affordable rents. We do this in two ways for our tenants:
Whangarei Accessible Housing Trust is a Registered Community Housing Provider (CHP), Community housing is rental housing provided by registered community housing providers (CHPs), rather than private landlords. It is long-term rental housing, provided under the rules set out in the Residential Tenancies Act 1986, for those in need on the Social Housing Register. As a CHP we provide good quality, affordable homes for long-term rental that have been specifically designed for wheelchair accessibility to enable independent living for our tenants with disabilities.
We also offer discounted market rents for tenants who need an accessible home but do not qualify for the Social Housing Register.
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