Westpac Sponsors Community Housing Conference
Media Release – 17 March 2011-03-17
Westpac Sponsors Community Housing Conference
Westpac is the major sponsor for the fourth national conference of umbrella group Community Housing Aotearoa, set to take place next week on 22-23 March in Henderson, Auckland.
The conference programme begins with keynote speeches from Minister of Housing Phil Heatley, Auckland Mayor Len Brown, Jeremy Gardiner the CEO of Te Runanga o Ngati Awa and former Housing New Zealand chief executive Michael Lennon.
Westpac’s David McLean, General Manager of Wealth, Insurance, Private and Institutional Banking, will headline the second day with a presentation about affordable housing.
Community housing organisations sit at the edge of social housing changes announced in December, with further details on changes to the Government’s housing policy set to be released in April.
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