Some light holiday reading & viewing for you!
From TheConversation.com – Going bananas over affordable housing
From CityLab.com – How High Design Can Help the Homeless
From the Sydney Morning Herald – The high cost of houses: someone else’s problem
From the Sydney Morning Herald – Turning a blind eye to housing bubble risks economic ‘domino effect’
From the Parliamentary Library – Australian Government Assistance to refugees: fact versus fiction
When you want something to watch – here are some TED Talks to inspire you to come back refreshed for 2015;
Moishe Safdie speaks on “How to reinvent the apartment building”
Karen Fitzpatrick asks the churches “What if we had more affordable housing for young families?”
Andreas Keller shows simple and reproducible ways to reduce energy poverty in “Pop-up houses improve South African slums”
Johnny Anderton at TEDxCapeTown speaks on Ekhaya – an affordable informal housing solution