Plenary programme
Monday 25. June:
Plenary 1: Opening
Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Liv Signe Navarsete
Mayor of Lillehammer, Espen Granberg Johnsen
Leader of ENHR, Peter Boulhowder
Leader of the Local Organisational Committee, Lars Gulbrandsen
Housing in Norway
Chair: Lars Gulbrandsen
Director of Strategi Bjørn J. Pedersen, The Housing Bank
Director-General Martin Mæland, OBOS – Oslo Building and Saving Society
Plenary 2A: Global impacts on national and local housing markets
Chair: Viggo Nordvik
Chief Economist Øystein Dørum, DnB – The Norwegian Bank: The housing boom and the financial crisis: Where are we now?
Javier Burón Cuadrado, Public law division Cuatrecasas Goncalves Pereira and researcher at Ekiten Thinking (EHU-UPV). Bilbao: Social impacts of financial and real estate turmoil: A non existing topic of the Spanish political agenda
Plenary 2B: Work, migration, family life and housing
Chair: Lena Magnusson Turner
Professor William A.V. Clark, University of California, Los Angeles: Life Course “Shocks” and Housing Outcomes: Precarious Positions in the Housing Market
Professor and Director Norbert Schneider, Bundesinstitüt für bevölkerungsforchung, Wiesbaden: Consequences of Job Mobility for Family Development and Housing. Findings from the study 'Job Mobilities and Family Lives in Europe'
Tuesday 26. June:
Plenary 3: Housing Research and Policy
Chair: Professor Peter Boulhouwer, Delft University of Technology
Professor Christine Whitehead, London School of Economics and Cambridge University: Housing Research and Policy: reasons for optimism?
Comments by Professor Marja Elsinga, Delft University of Technology and Martin Lux, Head of Department of Socioeconomics of Housing, Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
Plenary 4A: Family and housing - interdependence and effects
Chair: Professor Maarten van Ham, Delft University of Technology
PhD Teresio Poggio, University of Trento: The role of family in the social production of home ownership
Professor Clara H. Mulder, University of Groningen: A demographer’s perspective on family and housing
Plenary 4B: Housing and ageing
Chair: Assistant Professor Marianne Abramsson, University of Linkøping
Jan Rouwendal, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Older and wiser? Housing preferences, home equity and demand for long term care among the elderly
Senior Lecturer Rose Gilroy, Newcastle University: The new old age: what sort of housing will meet our needs?
Wednesday 27. June:
Plenary 5: Housing research and housing policy: a panel discussion on the relationship between research, policy and practice
Chair: senior adviser Per Åhren, The Norwegian State Housing Bank
- Professor and Director Duncan Maclennan, Centre for Housing Research at University of St Andrews, Head of School of Geography and Geosciences at University of St Andrews
- State Secretary Eikeland Gadgil, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
- Director Elena Szolgayová, Housing Policy and Urban Development Department Ministry of Transport, Construction and Regional Development, Slovak Republic
- Director Freek Spinnewijn, European Federation of National Organizations Working with the Homeless (FEANTSA)
