How can communities come together to set their own priorities to shape better systems? This panel session will bring together a series of cases from a group of international pioneers who are developing creative, practical answers to that question.
Robin Hacke, from the Centre for Community Investment in the US, will talk about its model which has enabled disinvested communities to mobilise significant investment for affordable housing.
Ted Howard, the instigator of the Evergreen community cooperative model in Cleveland, will outline how their approach to local sustainable community-led development in Amsterdam.
Penny Dakin, from the Minderoo Foundation in Australia, will introduce us to their work mobilising community led investment in their framework for ‘deep scaling’.
We will learn what it takes to create local systems - for housing, children and families, economic development - which undo systemic inequality.
Chaired by Charlie Leadbeater, System Shift CEO.