Australia – like many other advanced economies – is in a housing access and affordability crisis. This crisis has potential adverse implications for human dignity, societal equality, and faith in the democratic project. In this special seminar, co-sponsored by the UNSW Housing Analytics Lab, Australian Human Rights Institute and Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, we explore these potential impacts – as well as the potential for a human rights or constitutional rights frame to help advance access and affordability. The seminar will focus on lessons from the Irish experience, and especially the recent report of the Irish Housing Commission on a constitutional right to housing, but in conversation with the Australian context.
Speakers: Professor Chris Pettit (UNSW Housing Analytics Lab), Dr Ailbhe O’Neill SC (Trinity College Dublin and Housing Commission of Ireland referendum sub-committee chair) and Dr Hilary Hogan (Maynooth University)
Commentator: Scientia Professor Director Rosalind Dixon (Centre Director, UNSW Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law)