Westpac Sponsors Community Housing Conference

Thursday, 17 March 2011, 1:53 pm
Press Release: Community Housing Aotearoa

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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Biography:

David McLean is Westpac’s General Manager of Wealth, Insurance, Private & Institutional Banking in New Zealand. Before joining Westpac, David worked as a lawyer in private practice and as in-house counsel for Natwest, before joining the Capital Markets Group of Southpac/National Bank in 1988. Subsequently he joined Deutsche Morgan Grenfell in 1994, and during this period established a branch of Deutsche Bank and was New Zealand Resident Branch Manager. He joined Westpac in February 1999. David is Chairman of the Institute of Finance Professionals New Zealand (INFINZ), and serves on the boards of the NZ US Council and the New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation.

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Community Housing Aotearoa

Nga Wharerau o Aotearoa

Community Housing Aotearoa is the peak body for New Zealand's community housing sector. Our 110 members build and manage affordable and social housing.

Our Vision is to make sure every New Zealander is well-housed in a warm, safe, dry and affordable home. This is a basic human right.

We work to support the growth and development of community housing providers to enable them to provide affordable and social housing.

We want to demonstrate that community housing is a critical element alongside private and government owned housing. No one can do it alone.

Community Housing Aotearoa aims to:

1. be the voice of the community housing sector
2. build capacity and foster collaboration
3. promote best practice in housing policy
4. champion quality and excellence.

Contact Community Housing Aotearoa

• Website - communityhousing.org.nz/
• Our Place - Learn how we think this can be achieved
• Phone - +64 4 385 8722
• About us - Our 2021 annual report is online here
• Email - support@communityhousing.org.nz
• Link - Members directory
• Physical Address - Level 11, Ranchhod Tower, 39 The Terrace/102-112 Lambton Quay, Wellington