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Research Seminar – Housing Inequality: The Planner as Community Organiser
30 October, 2013 @ 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm
Topic:
Housing Inequality: The Planner as Community Organiser
Speaker:
Ms. Lai-shan Sze
Society for Community Organization (SoCo) Hong Kong
Schedule:
Date: 30 October, 2013 (Wednesday)
Time: 12:45 – 2:00 pm
Venue: Room 829, 8/F Knowles Building, HKU
Abstract:
Hong Kong is undergoing a profound crisis in housing, both its overall supply as well as affordability. Nowhere is this more trenchant than among the unemployed and underemployed. Speaking about her experience in working with the poor, Sze Lai-shan talks about community organising as a tool for planners to add to their skill sets. At some point, planners have to work closely with community –but what ethical and professional commitments does that require? What skills and knowledge base does it require to intervene in communities? How do we base our interventions on the actual experiences faced by the growing Hong Kong underclass? This seminar is about how the planner needs to understand, up close, the experience of poverty before she can design interventions.
About the Speaker:
Ms. Lai-shan Sze graduated from the Baptist University with a Bachelors degree in Social Work (Honors) in 1995 and from the University of Hong Kong with a Masters of Laws (Human Rights) in 2004. She joined SoCO as a community organizer in 1995. Her work in organizing the cage dwellers and new immigrants to fight for their human rights, led to her recognition as the outstanding social worker in Hong Kong in 2005. She was appointed as a part-time member of Central Policy Unit by the HKSAR Government in 2007 and 2008.
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