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Affordable Housing Research Network Launching Symposium By HKU Faculty of Architecture

03 Dec 2012

 

The Affordable Housing Research Network Launching Symposium of the Affordable Housing Research Network will be held on December (Monday) at the University of Hong Kong (HKU).

AHRN, established under the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Hong Kong, aims to promote research in affordable housing in the Faculty, and to provide academic input to facilitate the provision of affordable housing in Hong Kong and China specifically and Asia generally.

Ms Ada Fung, Deputy Director of Housing Department, will be giving an Opening Address for the Launching Symposium. Prof. Rebecca Chiu, Director of Affordable Housing Research Network will give the first presentation titled “Hong Kong’s next Long Term Housing Strategy – what are the challenges?”.

Date: December 10, 2012 (Monday)
Time: 3:30pm-6:00pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, G/F, Meng Wah Complex, The University of Hong Kong

For a detailed programme, please visit AHRN’s homepage at:  http://fac.arch.hku.hk/ahrn/

Affordable Housing Research Network

Since the advent of the knowledge economy and the outbreak of the regional and global financial crises in the last two decades, there have been a revived interest and needs of governments in the Asia Pacific region to ensure affordable housing to the expanding lower income classes. The recent economic booms and the housing price and rent hikes also rendered affordable housing impossible dreams of many, urging governments to attend to housing affordability problems.

The Purpose of AHRN is to promote research in affordable housing in the Faculty, and to provide academic input to facilitate the provision of affordable housing in Hong Kong and China specifically and Asia generally.

The Vision of AHRN is to serve as an international anchor in affordable housing research and to help improve housing quality, equity and efficiency of affordable housing in Hong Kong and China specifically and Asia generally.

The Missions of AHRN are to:

• facilitate and conduct research on affordable housing policy and professional practices, including comparative research;
• provide a platform for the dissemination and discussion on good practices in the planning, design, and management of affordable housing; and to
• inform the local government and community our research findings on the housing affordability situation.

The major Activities of AHRN are to:

• operate a website on affordable housing research;
• organize a seminar series to exchange research findings in and views on affordable housing; and to
• convey to the mass media our views on current affordable housing issues

For enquiries, please contact: Ms Fung at 2859 2721 or via email at: wysp@hku.hk .