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Laura Harding's extraordinary list of characteristics that make good housing. No longer on this platform Sydney Architecture Festival

"Security and affordability are two sides of the same coin, you cannot look at one without the other. You can't have one, without the other." Jemima Mowbray from Tenants' Union of NSW and #MakeRentingFair tells the Sydney Architecture Festival Shelter NSW Better Housing Now session. #SydArchFest

On last night of this year’s fantastic Sydney Architecture Festival, director Barnaby Bennett welcoming a full house (again) City of Sydney’s Customs House. So looking forward to tonight’s speakers #TimothyHill & #PaulKarakusevic to discuss their take on the fundamentals of good housing design

We are there - the finale of Sydney Architecture Festival, the culmination of a week of diverse, deeply informed and shared discussions on #affordablehousing.

Architect Timothy Hill, with typical cut through, says inter alia “Australia does not have a housing policy, it has a tax policy that produces junk” & that most countries deliberately do not “build housing in the ‘Australian Way’” Take a read - Sydney Architecture Festival

Paul launches energetically into his work - he has possibly been to the most Sydney Architecture Festival events of anyone this week (!) and his third and final talk this week is already deeply interesting - contextualised, informed, and precise

UK architect #PaulKarakusevic does a high speed run through of the history of public housing in England. Fabulous early works 1850-1900, then post-WW2 some remarkable statistics on the sheer quantity of public housing built - remarkably around 200 000 per year Sydney Architecture Festival

Paul Karakusevic on Bacton Estate 'we were called up one morning, asked to attend a project interview that evening, four other architects were also invited but didn't turn up - clearly they thought the client was crazy. We won the job' #Architect as optomist! #affordablehousing

Karakusevic Carson - I see here those timeless Vitruvian qualities - stability, utility, beauty. #affordablehousing worth every cent (and more) if it produces such generosity in its architectural expression as much as its accomodation #architecture #citiesforpeople #sydarchfest

I'm calling it for sure now. Best Sydney Architecture Festival yet. Many congrats Barnaby Bennett ArchitectureInsights - thanks Affordable Housing Sydney Architecture Guide Map Byron Kinnaird No longer on this platform HillThalisArch @AssoConsultArch + others for your talks, events, enthusiasm for the festival! #sydarchfest #architecture #affordablehousing

Finally, #SydArchFest would not be possible without our extraordinary crew of Volunteers who always make it look so easy - they care so much about architecture, and it shows! Thank you!