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Affordability by Design
October 20, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
SFU Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 5K3

Topic: Housing, Affordabiilty, Design

Audience: Architect / Engineer, Builder / Renovator, General Public, Planner, Policy analyst

On Friday October 20, 2006 (9:00 AM to 4:30 PM), the City Program at Simon Fraser University is hosting a workshop on housing affordaility in Vancouver, BC. The Conference will be held at SFU Harbour Centre, with partners including CMHC, Smart Growth BC, and Holland Barrs Consultants.

Housing affordability. It's the No. 1 issue in Vancouver, affecting our way of life and our future. This conference is focused on solutions, particularly those that offer a greater range of housing options for an increasingly diverse market. Both invited speakers and those who attend will be asked to identify barriers to innovations and to come up with design solutions.

"Affordability by Design" will look at:

• New opportunities and ideas in mixed housing design
• Best practices from Vancouver and other jurisdictions
• 'European'-style densities
• Infill housing on laneways
• Adaptive reuse and compatible infill in single-family neighbourhoods
• Intensification on major roads, new nodes and transit-oriented development
• Thinking outside the box

The registration is being handled through the City Program. Info:

http://www.sfu.ca/city/course7popup.htm

Registration:

http://www.sfu.ca/city/register.htm