New Realities of Ownership
The Future of Housing season
Monday 13 April 2015 6.30 - 8pm
Geological Society, Piccadilly, W1
£12. Concessions £6.
Friends of the RA book first
Four Visions for the Future of Housing
The housing crisis has fundamentally challenged the idea that we should all aspire to own where we live. Our panel discusses these new realities.
One of the effects of the housing crisis has been to confine many people to spending every increasing amounts of money on rent, unable to raise a deposit to get a foot on the housing ladder. In response to this apparent market failure, some have proposed renewed state intervention, either through rent controls or a new generation of council housing, as a way of alleviating the situation. How, though, might we move beyond the public-private distinction and find new models of ownership that better reflect the changing realities of how people live today? Or should we really be thinking of home ownership in terms of connection to an area and ideas of memory and belonging?
Speakers:
Shumi Bose – Senior Lecturer, Central St Martins and Senior Editor, Blueprint
Lindsey Garrett – Chair, New Era estate residents group
Tom Hunter – internationally-renowned artist based in London
Justin McGuirk – journalist and author of Radical Cities
Chris Walker – Head of Housing, Planning and Urban Policy, Policy Exchange
Aditya Chakrabortty (chair) – Senior economics commentator, The Guardian
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This event is fully booked; any returned tickets will be sold on the door from 6pm.