When
Wednesday 27 November 2024
12.30pm - 1:30pm AEDT (ACT, NSW, TAS, VIC)
12.00pm - 1:00pm ACDT (SA)
11.30am - 12:30pm (QLD)
11.00am - 12:00pm ACST (NT)
9.30am - 10:30am AWST (WA)
Online event
A Zoom link will be provided after registration.
Overview
Housing as a human right and the role of philanthropy
Australia does not have a national Human Rights Act, yet Australia has committed to international law including the right to adequate housing. This right is currently not well defined or protected. Beyond the right to adequate housing, several other rights can be affected when people don’t have safe and secure housing such as the right to education, employment, health and even the right to life. The lack of affordable housing may breach our human rights, but does this right require the government to provide us with housing?
A human rights framework could improve many aspects of our housing system. From rental laws that make homes healthier, to providing emergency accommodation to rough sleepers, and even requiring more social housing. A human rights framework could help us move beyond the notion of tenure types and related policies. Rather than the potential to increase wealth, people and community would be at the centre on how we thought about housing in Australia.
Join us for an overview of housing as a human right and how philanthropy can help realise this right in Australia. Hear how Australia’s international obligations have been used to try to create a robust national housing and homelessness plan. Understand how a rights-based approach to housing operates in the UK. Learn how funders are already using housing as human rights in their own work.
Please note: The session will be recorded.
Audience
This event is for Philanthropy Australia Affordable Housing Funders Network members only. We welcome other funder members at the New Gen, Active, Engaged or Impact membership tier only.
If you want to join this funders network or find out more about the philanthropic work in this area, please reach out to programs@philanthropy.org.au.
Speakers
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Daney Faddoul - Campaign Manager, Human Rights Law Centre
Daney Faddoul joined the Human Rights Law Centre in March 2020 and focuses on the campaign to create an Australian Human Rights Act. Daney has a wealth of campaigning experience from his time within the union movement, and at GetUp where he was a Senior Campaigner and then their Political Director. At GetUp he developed and led campaigns on economic justice and oversaw all of their political engagement activities, and assisted with a wide range of high-profile campaigning, messaging, media, fundraising and policy work.
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Before his time at GetUp he was negotiating enterprise agreements as an Industrial Officer within the trade union movement, and coordinating national industrial plans and campaigns. Daney studied law at the University of Western Sydney and is passionate about creating an Australian Human Rights Act, because it will help prevent human rights violations from occurring, will be a powerful tool for people and communities to challenge injustice, and will foster better understanding and respect for human rights within the community.
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Hal Pawson - Professor of Housing Research and Policy, University of NSW
Hal Pawson is Professor Housing Research and Policy and Associate Director at UNSW’s City Futures Research Centre. In this role he has led numerous major research projects funded by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI), by the Australian Research Council (ARC), and by non-government agencies Hal’s key interests include housing policy governance and strategy, private rental housing, social and affordable housing, and urban renewal.
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From 2019-23 he was a Housing Studies Managing Editor. Before moving to UNSW, Hal worked at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh from 1995-2011. In 2023 he became a non-Executive Director of Community Housing Canberra. He is a part-time policy advisor to Senator David Pocock. |
Affordable Housing Funders Network Chair
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Erin Dolan – Senior Program Manager - Homelessness and Affordable Housing, Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation
Erin is an experienced grants program manager, with nearly twenty years’ working in the industry. Her role entails developing and managing granting programs using best practice philanthropy and a focus on systemic change. She is the Chair of Philanthropy Australia’s Affordable Housing Funders Network and writes on issues relating to homelessness and affordable housing:
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The Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation is an independent community foundation that has supported Melbourne’s charities and the critical issues facing Melbourne since 1923.
The Foundation has worked on addressing homelessness as a priority for over a decade and recognises that the supply of affordable housing is one of the primary causes of homelessness.
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