Housing Then and Now

10.00 A History of Housing in Northern Ireland - Professor Paddy Gray

11.00 Coffee

11.30 Caledon - Austin Currie

12.00 Housing Conditions and Allocations in the Seventies and Since - Joe Frey

1.00 Lunch

2.00 How do we achieve shared housing?

Presentation by Housing Students chaired by Nicola McCrudden CIH

followed by panel discussion Ted Cantell, Duncan Morrow, Richard Mealey, Housing Association Integration Project NIFHA, Eileen Patterson Director of Communities Radius Housing,

4.00 Closing comments

Speakers:

  • Paddy Gray, Emeritus Professor in Belfast School of Architecture and the Built Environment at Ulster University
  • Austin Currie retired politician and civil rights leader who, in June 1968, occupied a house in Caledon, Co Tyrone in protest over housing discrimination by the local council.
  • Joe Frey Former Head of Research NIHE
  • Nicola McCrudden Chartered Institute of Housing Director
  • Professor Duncan Morrow Director of Community Engagement
  • Eileen Patterson Director of Communities Radius Housing,
  • Richard Mealey, Housing Association Integration Project

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