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An international conference held under
the auspices of Housing and the Built Environment, Research
Committee 43, of the International Sociological Association.
Thursday June 24 to Sunday June 27, 2004
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Adequate
Housing as a Human Right
Plenary 2
Willem van Vliet,
University of Colorado; Leilani Farha,
Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions; Joe
Darden, Michigan State University; Jasmin
Zine, University of Toronto; Malcolm Harrison,
University of Leeds |
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The
Future of Social Housing
Plenary 3
Keynote speakers: Hugo
Priemus, Delft University of Technology;
Carole Rakodi, University of Birmingham; Flavio
de Sousa, Brazil; Blair Babcock, Housing
New Zealand Corporation; Derek
Ballantyne, CEO, Toronto Community Housing
Corporation |
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Photographs from the Housing Conference,
click here
Photos of the Plenary Speakers, click here
The Centre for Urban and Community
Studies was pleased to host the June 2004 international
housing research conference under the auspices of Housing
and the Built Environment, Research Committee 43 of the
International Sociological Association.
The research committee on Housing and
the Built Environment was established in 1978 to provide
a forum for promoting research and communication among housing
researchers. It conducts biennial international conferences
and has also sponsored smaller regional meetings. Past venues
include Amsterdam, Paris, Hamburg, Prague, Montreal, Beijing,
Nairobi, Budapest, and Washington.
The Centre for Urban and Community Studies
celebrates its 40th year as the University of Toronto’s
home for inter-departmental and multidisciplinary research
on urban affairs, housing and community development.
The
Conference in Numbers
4 days:
350 delegates (academics,
government and NGO policy analysts, professionals,
students);
40 countries represented;
265 research papers
presented;
89 paper sessions;
3 plenaries;
12 keynote speakers and plenary
panel members from 7 countries;
25 Toronto area
professionals and NGO staff hosted
13 Housing
Practice Field Workshops for the delegates;
1,700 meals served (4 buffet lunches and one dinner)
28 graduate students employed
as conference staff during the four days;
and
1 webmaster (Jim Cottringer,
OISE Information Commons) keeping all of
us up-to-date.
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View
the PDF of First Announcement,
January 2003
View
the PDF of Call for Papers, August
2003
View
the PDF of the 2nd Call for Papers,
February 2004
View
the PDF of
the Final Call for Papers
300
Housing Researchers from 40 Countries
For list of researchers
and abstracts click
here
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View the PDF of the Day 2 Conference Update
View the PDF of the Day 3 Conference Update
View the PDF of the Day 4 Conference Update
Join
the Research Committee on Housing and the
Built Environment of the International
Sociological Association.
Application
Form, click here
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Sponsors
The Toronto 2004 conference
was co-sponsored by a number of organizations, including
the following.
The Centre
For Community and Urban Studies
City
of Toronto’s Shelter, Housing and Support Division
City of Toronto's Shelter, Housing and Support Division
of the Community & Neighbourhoods Department, which provides
temporary shelter and support to homeless people, develops
policies and programs for creating and maintaining affordable
housing solutions, and is responsible for the funding
and administration of social housing programs in the
City of Toronto."
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
(CMHC) is the Government of Canada's
national housing agency. CMHC plays a major role in Canada's
housing
industry, developing new ways to finance home purchases
and encouraging
innovation in housing design and technology. CMHC administers
the Mortgage
Insurance Fund. CMHC assistance helps low-income and older
Canadians,
people with disabilities and Aboriginal people live in
decent, affordable
housing. CMHC's leading-edge research helps Canadians make
informed
decisions about improved housing quality and affordability.
CMHC is Canada's
largest publisher of housing information.
Toronto
Community Housing Corporation, manager
of the 58,000 social housing units in the City -- one of
the largest social housing providers in North America, housing
about 165,000 tenants in communities across Toronto.
Social
Housing Services Corporation, a
public organization that provides social-housing-related
services for municipal and non-profit social housing providers
across Ontario, and
University of Toronto’s
endowed chair in housing studies, the
Dr. Chow Yei Ching Chair in Housing in the Faculty of Social
Work.
Thanks to the financial and in-kind support
of these organizations, the plenary sessions and major workshops
will be open to Toronto area NGO representatives, civil
servants, students and others interested in housing issues.
This will provide an opportunity for dialogue and exchange
between researchers from around the world and Toronto area
practitioners and involved citizens. The venue is a municipal
building in downtown Toronto, Metro Hall, the former home
of the Metropolitan Toronto level of government (the municipalities
that comprised Metropolitan Toronto were amalgamated in
the late 1990’s into the new enlarged City of Toronto).
Venue
Metro Hall
55 John Street
(King St West and John Street)
Metro Hall is a municipal government
building opened in 1992 to house the Metropolitan Toronto
level of government - prior to the late 1990's amalgamation
of 'metro' as one enlarged City of Toronto. Conference
plenaries will be held in the Metro Council Chambers and
the workshops will take place in the adjacent committee
meeting rooms (all are spacious with windows). This very
high quality meeting space is ideal for the conference.
It is provided by the City of Toronto's Shelter, Housing
and Support Division as their contribution to the housing
conference.
Metro Hall, one page overview.Click
here for PDF.
Source:
Lonely Planet, Toronto Guide
Metro
Hall, 55 John Street (at the corner of King Street West)
Metro Hall is at the left
edge of this photo.
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