Duke of Edinburgh to open JRF Centenary Housing Conference in London
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh is to introduce and chair the opening session of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Centenary Housing Conference in London on Tuesday 19th March. The conference is taking
place 100 years after Joseph Rowntree acquired land to start building the ‘garden village’ of New Earswick in York. The village has grown over the century and today includes 1,000 homes cared for by the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust, administered as part of the Foundation.
The event, at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster, will consider developments in housing finance and economics since the Foundation published the final report from the Duke of Edinburgh’s Inquiry into British Housing ten years ago. It will also celebrate the Foundation’s continuing support for independent housing research by launching two new publications:
Speakers at the conference will include: Prof. Duncan Maclennan, University of Glasgow and Special Adviser to the Scottish Executive; Janet Ford, Professor of Housing Policy at the University of York; Jim Coulter, Chief Executive of the National Housing Federation; Prof. Christine Whitehead of the London School of Economics and Cambridge University; Yolande Barnes, Head of Research at FPD Savills; and Lord Best, Director of Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
