Affordable Housing Funders Peer Network

How philanthropy can invest in alternative housing to solve the housing crisis

The Affordable Housing Funders Peer Network, chaired by Erin Dolan from the Greater Melbourne Foundation, will hold its final peer network meeting for 2025 on Tuesday 18 November. The focus of our discussion is on How philanthropy can invest in alternative housing to solve the housing crisis.

This session will show how philanthropy can best use its resources to create more affordable housing. Come hear Erin talk about her experience travelling overseas on her Churchill Fellowship. Erin will detail her journey through Europe and North America to investigate international housing funds to make housing cheaper to develop. She will talk about which housing markets overseas offer the best examples of affordability and how philanthropy from abroad uses innovative models of affordable housing.

Erin will talk about what sparked her initial idea, why philanthropy should focus on housing and how best to affect change. She will also detail how philanthropy can structure their giving to create housing funds. This session will squarely focus on what philanthropy can do to solve the housing crisis. This is the first presentation on Erin’s work – get a sneak peak before her Churchill Fellowship report is published. And consider whether your idea would suit a Churchill Fellowship too.

Speaker:

Erin Dolan – Senior Program Manager, Homelessness and Affordable Housing, Greater Melbourne Foundation

Audience:

This meeting is for the Affordable Housing Funders Peer Network members.

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