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Media Launch

Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP, CSJ Chairman; Philippa Stoud, CSJ Executive Director; and the Housing and Dependency Working Group Chairman Kate Davies discuss the report with the media.

Kate Davies the Chairman of the Housing Poverty Working Group

Kate Davies joined Notting Hill Housing in mid-2004 following roles as Chief Executive of Servite Houses and Director of Housing in Brighton and Hove. She also has experience in local government and the private and voluntary sectors. She has two degrees and qualifications in housing management (MCIH) and housing association development. She is particularly interested in families, parenting, equality issues and regeneration.

Audience arrive for a briefing on 'Housing Poverty'

An audience of Shadow Ministers, MPs, local authorities and charities working into social housing attend the Public Briefing.

Panel

Left to Right: Ferdinand Mount, Head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit 1982 - 1984; Kate Davies, CSJ Housing and Dependency Working Group and Philippa Stroud, CSJ Executive Director join Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith, CSJ Chairman (not pictured).

Philippa Stroud, CSJ Executive Director, introduces the report

Ferdinand Mount

Ferdinand Mount, head of the policy unit in 10 Downing Street in 1982-83, provides the historical context for the current social housing position.

Kate Davies

Kate Davies provides a briefing on the paper. Key milestones of the social housing market across the twentieth century leading to a current crisis of increased ghettoisation of Britain's most dysfunctional. The report contains policy proposals to ensure Britain's social housing stock is turned from a poverty trap into a springboard at an individual or family's point of need.

Grant Shapps MP, Shadow Minister for Housing

The Shadow Minister for Housing, Grant Shapps MP, attends the Briefing in preparation for the Conservative Party's Green Paper on Social Housing.

Question Time

The audience are given an opportunity to ask the panel questions on the report.

Greg Hands MP

Greg Hands MP (Con) asks a question of the panel.

Ferdinand Mount

Ferdinand Mount answers the last question to conclude the Public Briefing of the 'Housing Poverty' report.